Public bug reported:
I'm having a really weird issue since reinstalling Ubuntu 19.04 the
other day. This is on a system76 laptop with a bios toggle between
nvidia prime mode (intel graphics connected to the display, nvidia card
must be trunked through it) and discrete mode (intel graphics
deactivated, nvidia card connected directly to the display).
I'd reinstalled when the laptop was in prime mode, and that seemed to
work ok. However, I discovered that the nvidia binary driver's vulkan
support doesn't work properly in this configuration, just get black
windows in every vulkan app. So I went and switched my bios to discrete
mode.... and gdm3 appears, but after login I get dumped to a blank tty
with a stuck cursor.
Did a bunch of digging and discovered gdm3 is starting on nouveau or
some sort of fb driver in wayland, and when X starts it reports that it
can't figure out anything about my laptop display:
162:[ 291.239] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
163:[ 291.239] (II) NVIDIA(0): "NULL"
If I uncomment the line in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf which says
"WaylandEnable=false", then gdm3 just hangs at a blank tty the same way
as my user's X session.
If I uninstall the nvidia binary drivers, gdm3 starts but is extremely
slow, my X session seems to work ok with greatly reduced performance.
The weirdest part with the binary drivers installed: if I switch to a
tty, login as root, stop gdm3, start lightdm, lightdm runs x fine... but
then hangs when I try to login. but if I then kill lightdm and start
gdm3.... X starts correctly and sees my display, and the Xorg log for my
user shows that it's no longer showing metamodes as null! but as soon as
I reboot, it's all broken again.
So. this feels like something I can't seem to find in the Ubuntu stack
about how things are setup for prime mode that aren't being correctly
reset when I set my laptop to discrete mode, and somehow lightdm resets
them even if it doesn't work properly itself. No idea what I need to do
to make this work properly in discrete mode, but it's a pretty broken
state of affairs right now where I don't have any performant way of
using my video card.
short of fully reinstalling Ubuntu while the laptop is in discrete mode,
do you have any suggestions on how to debug and fix this?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: nvidia-driver-418 418.56-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-20.21-generic 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 22 01:31:07 2019
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-418
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-418 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug disco
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837366
Title:
nvidia binary drivers fail to see display in discrete mode
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-418 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm having a really weird issue since reinstalling Ubuntu 19.04 the
other day. This is on a system76 laptop with a bios toggle between
nvidia prime mode (intel graphics connected to the display, nvidia
card must be trunked through it) and discrete mode (intel graphics
deactivated, nvidia card connected directly to the display).
I'd reinstalled when the laptop was in prime mode, and that seemed to
work ok. However, I discovered that the nvidia binary driver's vulkan
support doesn't work properly in this configuration, just get black
windows in every vulkan app. So I went and switched my bios to
discrete mode.... and gdm3 appears, but after login I get dumped to a
blank tty with a stuck cursor.
Did a bunch of digging and discovered gdm3 is starting on nouveau or
some sort of fb driver in wayland, and when X starts it reports that
it can't figure out anything about my laptop display:
162:[ 291.239] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
163:[ 291.239] (II) NVIDIA(0): "NULL"
If I uncomment the line in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf which says
"WaylandEnable=false", then gdm3 just hangs at a blank tty the same
way as my user's X session.
If I uninstall the nvidia binary drivers, gdm3 starts but is extremely
slow, my X session seems to work ok with greatly reduced performance.
The weirdest part with the binary drivers installed: if I switch to a
tty, login as root, stop gdm3, start lightdm, lightdm runs x fine...
but then hangs when I try to login. but if I then kill lightdm and
start gdm3.... X starts correctly and sees my display, and the Xorg
log for my user shows that it's no longer showing metamodes as null!
but as soon as I reboot, it's all broken again.
So. this feels like something I can't seem to find in the Ubuntu stack
about how things are setup for prime mode that aren't being correctly
reset when I set my laptop to discrete mode, and somehow lightdm
resets them even if it doesn't work properly itself. No idea what I
need to do to make this work properly in discrete mode, but it's a
pretty broken state of affairs right now where I don't have any
performant way of using my video card.
short of fully reinstalling Ubuntu while the laptop is in discrete
mode, do you have any suggestions on how to debug and fix this?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: nvidia-driver-418 418.56-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-20.21-generic 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 22 01:31:07 2019
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-418
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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