Laptops are almost always wired with only the Intel GPU connected to the LCD. If there is an Nvidia GPU then it is not connected to the screen; it only shares rendered frames with the Intel GPU via system memory. This allows the Nvidia GPU to be completely turned off without losing the screen or needing to change drivers.
And the Intel driver absolutely requires modesetting to work (hence no 'nomodeset'), because that is the only mode of operation supported by the Intel driver (unless you want 1024x768 and software rendering). Yes, I think Escape is edge triggered only. It's not a modifier key like Shift is. But also yes I only use UEFI so maybe legacy BIOS modes still support Shift. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830000 Title: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Installing the nvidia-driver-390 package and disabling (or not) the nouveau drivers results in a system that superficially appears to busy hang before reaching the login screen, leaving only the fsck "/dev/sda1: clean,..." message on the screen. The machine is alive, and logging in remotely gives a hint at what is happening. The output of top shows that init and systemd are struggling with something: ``` top - 17:24:00 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 2.76, 1.00, 0.36 Tasks: 188 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 17.0 us, 15.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 67.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16238012 total, 15513832 free, 242248 used, 481932 buff/cache KiB Swap: 16001020 total, 16001020 free, 0 used. 15716900 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 20 0 225600 9312 6672 S 60.4 0.1 0:51.63 /sbin/init nosplash 797 root 20 0 71656 7180 5296 S 26.8 0.0 0:14.92 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind 1133 root 20 0 46368 3584 1976 R 13.9 0.0 0:12.01 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 795 root 20 0 1773200 30772 12548 S 13.2 0.2 0:11.71 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd 784 message+ 20 0 51464 6036 3988 S 12.9 0.0 0:11.15 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --s+ 308 root 19 -1 249904 120460 114260 S 10.7 0.7 0:10.60 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald 1132 root 20 0 46368 3584 1976 S 10.0 0.0 0:08.71 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 1134 root 20 0 46368 3260 1656 S 10.0 0.0 0:08.61 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 333 root 20 0 46368 4684 3084 S 5.0 0.0 0:04.25 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd ``` Eventually, Xorg does manage to get a word in, but falls over, to try again repeatedly. ``` top - 16:52:36 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.69, 1.04, 0.43 Tasks: 187 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 9.5 us, 3.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 85.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.2 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16238012 total, 15457080 free, 278152 used, 502780 buff/cache KiB Swap: 16001020 total, 16001020 free, 0 used. 15680684 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1821 root 20 0 312908 61228 20584 R 65.2 0.4 0:01.97 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/121/gdm/Xauthority -b+ 806 root 20 0 71656 7200 5320 S 18.5 0.0 0:24.83 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind ``` A further hint comes from syslog which is spammed with systemd trying to start nvidia-persistenced, which is then killed. This happens hundreds of times while the machine is up. This except shows one instance. ``` May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Verbose syslog connection opened May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Now running with user ID 123 and group ID 127 May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Started (31927) May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: device 0000:01:00.0 - registered May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Local RPC service initialized May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Received signal 15 May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Stopping NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Socket closed. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: PID file unlocked. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: PID file closed. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: The daemon no longer has permission to remove its runtime data directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (31927) May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Stopped NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. ``` This is a fresh install of 18.04.2 (less than an hour old). If apport has not collected all the necessary details I'll post them after this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: "" .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.116 Sun Jan 27 07:21:36 PST 2019 GCC version: gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Date: Wed May 22 17:24:31 2019 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: bionic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: nvidia, 390.116, 4.18.0-20-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer HD Graphics 530 [1558:6540] NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [10de:13d8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [1558:6540] InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-22 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5986:066d Acer, Inc Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1c7a:0603 LighTuning Technology Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: Notebook P65_P67RGRERA ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_AU:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-20-generic root=UUID=d6da27fa-5d91-4240-b3c9-c7de06124a36 ro nomodeset quiet nosplash SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.05.13 dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345 dmi.board.name: P65_P67RGRERA dmi.board.vendor: Notebook dmi.board.version: Not Applicable dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Notebook dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.05.13:bd01/27/2016:svnNotebook:pnP65_P67RGRERA:pvrNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnP65_P67RGRERA:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNotebook:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.family: Not Applicable dmi.product.name: P65_P67RGRERA dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable dmi.product.version: Not Applicable dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1~18.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1830000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
