gpone, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
1) To see if this is already resolved in your release, could you please
undo your WORKAROUNDs, update your HWE stack as per
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack and advise to the
results?
2) If still reproducible, could you please provide the missing
information from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ?
** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.2.7
** Summary changed:
- Xorg freeze with Nvidia 960m on Dell Inspiron 15-7559
+ [Inspiron 15 7000 Series 7559] Display freezes when booting with nouveau
** Description changed:
- Posted first about this issue at
- https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2339198
+ When attempting to boot, the display freezes on the Ubuntu splash screen
+ after entering my disk password.
- Pasted post below:
+ WORKAROUND: When using nouveau remove "quiet" and "splash" from my grub
+ configuration.
- "I installed Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop alongside Windows 10 Home on a Dell
- Inspiron 15-7559 with an Nvidia 960m card and embeded Intel Skylake
- graphics.
-
- When I first installed Ubuntu and attempted to boot, the display would
- freeze on the Ubuntu splash screen after entering my disk password.
- Strangely, by removing "quiet" and "splash" from my grub configuration
- during my next boot, I was able to finally boot to the login screen and
- access the desktop. I installed the Intel and Nvidia drivers in the
- "Additional Drivers" app and now I can boot to the login screen with no
- issues.
-
- Now, when closing the laptop lid to suspend the system, it resumes to a
- blank screen and I can't get it to recover from this state without
- holding the power button to force shutdown. I verified that it is a
- display issue because I was able to ssh into the machine while it had
- the blank screen.
-
- I was able to install and boot into the latest (4.8) mainline kernel,
- which also gave me a warning/error because of my installed proprietary
- drivers. I tried uninstalling the Nvidia drivers to see if Nouveau had
- been fixed/improved, but the previous splash screen freeze returned; I
- was able to reinstall the drivers by booting into 4.8 recovery mode and
- using the Failsafe graphics mode to reinstall the Nvidia drivers.
-
- Any help on getting Nouveau to work nicely with the 960m so I don't have
- to run proprietary drivers or solve the suspend issue?"
-
- Now, I sometimes cannot shutdown properly without getting warnings about
- cpu soft lockups from gpu-manager. I also get these when I boot without
- nvidia drivers with "quiet" and "splash" options removed from my grub
- config.
+ WORKAROUND: Use nvidia proprietary driver.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-040800-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:
-
+
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:
-
+
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Thu Oct 6 20:47:42 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
- bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-38-generic, x86_64: installed
- bbswitch, 0.8, 4.8.0-040800-generic, x86_64: installed
- nvidia-361, 361.42: added
+ bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-38-generic, x86_64: installed
+ bbswitch, 0.8, 4.8.0-040800-generic, x86_64: installed
+ nvidia-361, 361.42: added
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GpuHangFrequency: Continuously
GpuHangReproducibility: Yes, I can easily reproduce it
GpuHangStarted: Immediately after installing this version of Ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
- Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller])
-Subsystem: Dell Skylake Integrated Graphics [1028:0706]
-Subsystem: Dell GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [1028:0706]
+ Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Dell Skylake Integrated Graphics [1028:0706]
+ Subsystem: Dell GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [1028:0706]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-29 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160719)
Lsusb:
- Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
- Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp.
- Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1bcf:28b0 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
- Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
+ Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
+ Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp.
+ Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1bcf:28b0 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
+ Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 7559
ProcEnviron:
- LANGUAGE=en_US
- TERM=xterm-256color
- PATH=(custom, no user)
-
