nouveau driver seems doesn't work on nvidia GTX 1050 Ti noteook card

[Edson T. Marques]

Hello! Good afternoon!

I believe this should be the second time I try to report this malfunction case that I believe may be related to the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver, running on nvidia GTX1050 video card laptops (as is my case notebook). Sorry if that's not the case!

Anyway, I decided to report this bug and add some images I got when, after several failed attempts to login with my gnome user, with the frozen interface and the committed execution flow, I was lucky to get a successful Ctrl + Alt + F4 or Ctrl + Alt + F5 and got access to a text-mode session, which worked in the "leaps" but which allowed me at least after several minutes of patience to view this log, which I believe has some clue that may be happening. Sorry again, now for the bad quality of the photos, I had to take several of the same screen because of lighting problems and focus.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permissão negada: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 29 15:26:40 2019
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: disco
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia, 418.56, 5.0.0-8-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: No
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:591b] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell HD Graphics 630 [1028:0798]
 NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] [10de:1c8c] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] [1028:0798]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-30 (58 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190119)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-8-generic root=UUID=11a759f5-c884-4c9a-87f0-22554753d054 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/15/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.8.1
dmi.board.name: 0P84C9
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.8.1:bd08/15/2018:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron157000Gaming:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0P84C9:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Inspiron
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming
dmi.product.sku: 0798
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.97-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.0.1-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.4-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.0.1-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20180925-2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

[Edson T. Marques (edsontmarques)]

PS: I must clarify that at the moment I have already updated the video driver of my notebook for nvidia (I used "ubuntu-drivers" for it). But the problem in question always happens, from the first installation of ubuntu where, originally, the nouveau drive is installed.
In this case I resolved to give a purge in the previous version of the nvidia driver that I had installed, to then redo the installation of the new version 418 ... after the purge I was forced to reboot the computer before reinstalling the nvidia driver. .. and had to go through the whole problem of trying to use the nouveau driver in this notebook. That's where I got the photos from the log screens.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

you're not actually using nouveau (the X driver), the error is from the kernel.. and since it's buggy, the later kernels have disabled nouveau modeset by default, so this shouldn't happen with 5.0.0-11 and up...