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| Dmitry (dmitry216) wrote xorg fails to load nvidia driver on switching to greeter | #0 |
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System:
- Xubuntu 18.04.4, signle seat, single monitor
- NVidia 1050ti driver 435.21
- lightdm 1.26.0
- slick-greeter
Scenario 1: No xorg.conf. I use 'light-
Scenario 2: xorg.conf generated with nvidia tool. After attempting to lock screen same blinking cursor appears, but now if I press Alt-F7 it stops blinking, then Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, sudo systemctl restart lightdm and it's alive and loginable again.
In the lightdm.log I see repeating sequence (approx 5 times a second):
[+61.67s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+61.67s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+61.67s] DEBUG: Using VT 8
[+61.67s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 8
[+61.67s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Logging to /var/log/
[+61.67s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Writing X server authority to /var/run/
[+61.67s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Launching X Server
[+61.67s] DEBUG: Launching process 3301: /usr/bin/X -core :1 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/
[+61.67s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Waiting for ready signal from X server :1
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Process 3301 terminated with signal 6
[+61.96s] DEBUG: XServer 1: X server stopped
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 8
[+61.96s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Removing X server authority /var/run/
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+61.96s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Active display server stopped, starting greeter
x-1.log says:
X.Org X Server 1.19.6
Release Date: 2017-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.0-148-generic x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux dmitry-desktop 4.15.0-101-generic #102-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 10:07:26 UTC 2020 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=
Build Date: 03 June 2019 08:10:35AM
xorg-server 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3 (For technical support please see http://
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
Before reporting problems, check http://
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/
vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Xorg.1.log says:
...
[ 129.447] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 129.447] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 129.447] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 129.447] (II) Unloading nvidia
[ 129.447] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 129.447] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 129.447] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 129.447] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 129.447] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 129.447] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 129.447] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
...
In my case solution was to add following to xorg.conf to make Xorg load proper nvidia driver:
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/
EndSection
I'm not sure which package is responsible for that configuration and how it is done within modern approach, but I think things like this must be done automatically by one of nvidia drivers package (xserver-
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