video problem after update (I guess :)

[fritzthecat]

After recent update, my system won't boot properly. I see the desktop but can't do anything. It boots slowly and bubbles go slowly one by one from cauldron picture (I keep original desktop theme). If I press escape after that i get black screen which shows boot process , and I see message checking for updates for video card (something like that). I wait a little bit and then system boots and i can work, but its annoying. Tried to put back my old drivers for video card (proprietary ones not non free) same thing. What happened after update, anybody having similar experience?

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Did you try to reconfigure the X server as in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server
What video card/driver do you use? nvidia, ati, intel ... ?
Please show the output of

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grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
lspcidrake -v | grep VGA

[fritzthecat]

Dear Doc,

I tried to reconfigure X server nothing happens. Before it was nvidia non free driver, now its nouveu same thing

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[aki@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log [   171.329]    X.Org Video Driver: 13.1 [   171.329]    X.Org XInput driver : 18.0 [   171.339] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so [   171.343]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1 [   171.348] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so [   171.351]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver [   171.352]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1 [   171.352] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux [   171.352] (II) NOUVEAU driver  [   171.352] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1920x1080": 148.5 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 67.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1920x1080": 148.5 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 56.2 kHz, 50.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1600x1200": 162.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 75.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1680x1050": 119.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 64.7 kHz, 59.9 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x1024": 108.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 64.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1440x900": 88.8 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 55.5 kHz, 59.9 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x960": 108.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x800": 71.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 49.3 kHz, 59.9 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x720": 74.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 37.5 kHz, 50.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1280x720": 74.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 45.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.776] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz [   171.777] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz [   171.777] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "720x576": 27.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.2 kHz, 50.0 Hz [   171.777] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "720x480": 27.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.5 kHz, 59.9 Hz [   171.777] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz [   171.782]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1 [   171.790] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: nouveau [   171.790] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nouveau [   171.791] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps [   171.791] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations: [   171.953]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver [   171.953]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 18.0 [   171.954] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button' [   171.987] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button' [   171.989] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.989] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.990] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.990] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.991] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Razer Razer Mamba Charging dock' [   171.993] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.993] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Razer Razer Mamba Charging dock' [   171.994] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'CM Storm Quickfire TKL 6keys' [   171.994] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'CM Storm Quickfire TKL 6keys' [   171.995] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.995] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.995] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.995] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.995] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.996] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.996] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [   171.996] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [aki@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v | grep VGA                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

[fritzthecat]

I use gtx 760 nvidia graphic card

[fritzthecat]

Have I posted this code correctly looks unreadable?

[doktor5000]

What do you mean by nothing happens? You don't get offered a proprietary driver?
Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep nvidia

and

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urpmq --list-media active

[fritzthecat]

Dear Doc,

Next time I have rebooted it started to boot almost normally still little bit slower than before. It seems that changing the driver to nouveu helped. Here is the output you asked

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x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-319.60-1.mga3.nonfree
dkms-nvidia-current-319.60-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3-319.17-4.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-doc-html-319.60-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.10.24-desktop-2.mga3-319.60-8.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-319.60-8.mga3.nonfree

Here is the other one

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Core Release
Core Updates
Nonfree Release
Nonfree Updates
Tainted Release
Tainted Updates
Core 32bit Release
Core 32bit Updates
Nonfree 32bit Release
Nonfree 32bit Updates
Tainted 32bit Release
Tainted 32bit Updates
Core Release (distrib1)
Core Updates (distrib3)
Nonfree Release (distrib11)
Nonfree Updates (distrib13)
Tainted Release (distrib21)
Tainted Updates (distrib23)
Core 32bit Release (distrib31)
Core 32bit Updates (distrib32)
Nonfree 32bit Release (distrib36)
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib37)
Tainted 32bit Release (distrib41)
Tainted 32bit Updates (distrib42)
Core Release (distrib46)
Core Updates (distrib48)
Nonfree Release (distrib56)
Nonfree Updates (distrib58)
Tainted Updates (distrib68)
Core 32bit Release (distrib76)
Core 32bit Updates (distrib77)
Nonfree 32bit Release (distrib81)
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib82)                                                                                                                                                                                 
Tainted 32bit Release (distrib86)                                                                                                                                                                                 
Tainted 32bit Updates (distrib87)

What actully happened after update? I guess it was something with Xorg because i think i updated something about it. Although I have changed back to proprietary driver it still says nonfree in output you asked? How come it works now better...a mistery to me.

Thanks a lot Doc!

[doktor5000]

What actully happened after update? I guess it was something with Xorg because i think i updated something about it. Although I have changed back to proprietary driver it still says nonfree in output you asked? How come it works now better...a mistery to me.

Well, the problem (which affected quite a lot of users) comes from the fact how the nvidia drivers is packaged, and what is automatically installed.

There are two versions of the driver, binary (precompiled) driver modules, that are the nvidia-*-kernel packages.
The other variant is the driver packaged as dkms version, dkms-nvidia. Check e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Ke ... le_Support for more information what dkms is/does.
The problem is, drakx11 installs both the nvidia-*-kernel and dkms-nvidia packages, so that e.g. when you compile your own kernel or install a kernel for which no nvidia-*-kernel package exists, it will be automatically compiled by dkms-nvidia when you boot that kernel next time.

So far for the theory. Normally this works pretty good. But sometimes the nvidia-*-kernel and dkms-nvidia get out of sync slightly,
and when you boot next time when this happend during an update - poof, black screen as X server will not start.

You can easily see the issue when you switch to another terminal via e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3 and look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
to see what causes the error. Either you will see something like "EE: Error - No screens found" near the end of that file,
or in your case probably something similar to "Module version mismatch" as the module versions from the nvidia driver packages don't match exactly with the X driver.

Can be easily workarounded by booting in failsafe mode, running drakx11 and selecting any other driver except nvidia so that you can boot normally.

What I prefer to do is remove all nvidia-*-kernel packages and only keep the dkms-nvidia package. You could also try that, as root do

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urpme -a nvidia-current-kernel

and then change the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from nouveau to nvidia.

But remember, the next time you will run drakx11 and reselect nvidia driver, it will again install the nvidia-*-kernel packages

[doktor5000]

For comparison, this is waht it looks like here, only dkms-nvidia and the X driver itself (which you need in any case.)

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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
dkms-nvidia-current-319.60-1.mga3.nonfree
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-319.60-1.mga3.nonfree