Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-21 Thread Thomas Letherby
Leander, that seems to be just the ticket! Looks like that's solved the issue at first sniff, but I'll have more time to poke around tomorrow and make sure it's all happy. Thanks again, and I'll post back when I've had more time to run it through its paces. Thomas On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 6:23

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-21 Thread Leander Hutton
On 08/21/2018 12:39 AM, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Doesn't seem to have a monitor section, but this may be because it's a > laptop so the nVidia and Intel gfx are interconnected, I also don't have > a 98-monitor.conf file. > > Might have something to do with it... > > Restarting SDDM on another ter

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/21/18 12:39, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Tim - I don't believe so, it's a 4K screen so there shouldn't be much it can't > display, and previewing the theme seems to work ok. > > Tried installing Haveged suggested in the Ubuntu bug report, but no dice. That > seems to be mostly people using Gnome

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-20 Thread Thomas Letherby
Invidia-xconfig created the config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf though, however when I went to grab that it appears startx and sddm are now failing to load at all. Not sure if that's something I've done, or the latest patches so I'll reinstall and to get us back to a known config, and then install the dr

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-20 Thread Thomas Letherby
Tim - I don't believe so, it's a 4K screen so there shouldn't be much it can't display, and previewing the theme seems to work ok. Tried installing Haveged suggested in the Ubuntu bug report, but no dice. That seems to be mostly people using Gnome, but it's interesting they're seeing the same issu

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-20 Thread Nataraj
On 08/17/2018 04:52 AM, Frédéric wrote: >> I installed the drivers using the below. Problem is the same, black screen >> on boot, but you can shift to another terminal and startx. The nVidia >> control panel shows the driver loaded and reports OK. > I've got exactly the same problem. I'm on F27.

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 13:01, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something stopping > sddm from > displaying the screen, rather than a total failure. Sorry for the multiple replies to the previous post.  But I was thinking about this issue this evening and I've

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/18 00:45, Frédéric wrote: >> When you boot and get the blank screen. If you do "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and then >> login in >> text mode if you do "sudo systemctl restart sddm" will you have the login >> display >> when you switch back? > When I do that on my computer, it comes back automatically

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/18 05:48, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/19/18 14:39, Tim via users wrote: >> Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: >>> Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something >>> stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total >>> failure. >> Is it

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 14:39, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: >> Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something >> stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total >> failure. > Is it using an unsupported (by your monitor) scre

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-19 Thread Frédéric
> When you boot and get the blank screen. If you do "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and then > login in > text mode if you do "sudo systemctl restart sddm" will you have the login > display > when you switch back? When I do that on my computer, it comes back automatically to F1 black screen. F _

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something > stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total > failure. Is it using an unsupported (by your monitor) screen mode, and the monitor is simply blanking ou

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 13:01, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something stopping > sddm from > displaying the screen, rather than a total failure. One other small test. When you boot and get the blank screen.  If you do "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and then login in t

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 13:01, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something stopping > sddm from > displaying the screen, rather than a total failure. > > I do have those options set at boot, I posted before and after I installed the > nVidia drivers, so i probably

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Thomas Letherby
Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total failure. I do have those options set at boot, I posted before and after I installed the nVidia drivers, so i probably caused some confusion there. I did also try adding a

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 09:15, Thomas Letherby wrote: > > ps -eaf | grep sddm > > root  1497 1  0 17:59 ?    00:00:00 /usr/bin/sddm > root  1501  1497  0 17:59 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/Xorg -nolisten > tcp > -auth /var/run/sddm/{a1d9270c-38d2-4241-8d36-caf7228d5813} -background none > -n

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-18 Thread Thomas Letherby
Here's the results of the logs for sddm: ps -eaf | grep sddm root 1497 1 0 17:59 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/sddm root 1501 1497 0 17:59 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{a1d9270c-38d2-4241-8d36-caf7228d5813} -background none -noreset -displayf

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > I tried with LightDM, which gave the same black screen, with the > following in /var/log/messages, not sure why it's trying to talk to > PulseAudio? I'm not sure what stage you're up to by then: Just getting the logon screen, or have

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-17 Thread Frédéric
> I installed the drivers using the below. Problem is the same, black screen on > boot, but you can shift to another terminal and startx. The nVidia control > panel shows the driver loaded and reports OK. I've got exactly the same problem. I'm on F27. I have had a black sddm screen for 5 weeks (

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/17/18 13:07, Thomas Letherby wrote: > I'll do both as soon as I can find my USB to Ethernet adapter as the laptop > doesn't > have an Ethernet port built in. It's on my desk, but right now so is > everything else! OK.  But you could do that from the VT from the command line without doing a

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-16 Thread Thomas Letherby
I'll do both as soon as I can find my USB to Ethernet adapter as the laptop doesn't have an Ethernet port built in. It's on my desk, but right now so is everything else! Should be able to dig it out tomorrow and get these done. Thanks for your help so far. Thomas On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:20 PM

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-16 Thread Ed Greshko
FWIW, for completeness   After the system is booted these are the processes running associated with sddm. [egreshko@f28k-b1 ~]$ ps -eaf | grep sddm root   677 1  0 10:06 ?    00:00:00 /usr/bin/sddm root   702   677  2 10:06 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/Xorg -nolisten tcp -au

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/16/18 12:34, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Hello Ed, > > Thanks for the suggestion, I tried with LightDM, which gave the same black > screen, > with the following in /var/log/messages, not sure why it's trying to talk to > PulseAudio? > > I prefer to use "journalctl" to extract log information.

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-15 Thread Thomas Letherby
Hello Ed, Thanks for the suggestion, I tried with LightDM, which gave the same black screen, with the following in /var/log/messages, not sure why it's trying to talk to PulseAudio? Aug 15 21:18:13 testlaptop dbus-daemon[1804]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='net.reactivated.Fprint

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/15/18 12:21, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Here's the full output of the commands used, and I pulled the logs again: > > https://pastebin.com/RfpfRqSj > > I've not had a chance to dredge through them myself yet, I should be able to > tonight or tomorow I hope. In the mean time is there any other

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-14 Thread Thomas Letherby
I installed the drivers using the below. Problem is the same, black screen on boot, but you can shift to another terminal and startx. The nVidia control panel shows the driver loaded and reports OK. I used the following: dnf update dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories config-manager --set-

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-13 Thread Thomas Letherby
Noted! systemctl status sddm ● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-08-13 16:49:27 MST; 50min ago Docs: man:sddm(1) man:sddm.conf(5) Main

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/14/18 08:27, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Sorry, I wasn't entirely clear there, I meant the major components (GFX, CPU > family > etc) rather than down to any particular board rev, although It's not really > been > out that long, so there's probably not been any revs yet. > > My kids decided th

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-13 Thread Thomas Letherby
Sorry, I wasn't entirely clear there, I meant the major components (GFX, CPU family etc) rather than down to any particular board rev, although It's not really been out that long, so there's probably not been any revs yet. My kids decided they'd bother my wife at the grocery store, so I dd get a c

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > Was hoping someone had already tried with the laptop, the motherboard > and graphics sre the same across all the latest XPS 15s, so if it's > been done on one it should be done on them all. Are you sure? Manufacturers change component

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-11 Thread Thomas Letherby
I'll try and get a few hours next weekend to put together some proper diagnostics. Was hoping someone had already tried with the laptop, the motherboard and graphics sre the same across all the latest XPS 15s, so if it's been done on one it should be done on them all. No matter, I'll rebuild it wh

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/11/18 15:14, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Not sure, but it works fine up until the nVidia drivers are installed. It > does have > dual nVidia/Intel graphics, so I'm wondering if it's having trouble switching > them > over. No smoking gun though, this is just the errors I see when it tanks.  > >

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-11 Thread Thomas Letherby
Not sure, but it works fine up until the nVidia drivers are installed. It does have dual nVidia/Intel graphics, so I'm wondering if it's having trouble switching them over. No smoking gun though, this is just the errors I see when it tanks. When I get some more time I'll have another look, was rea

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/11/18 12:39, Thomas Letherby wrote: > Digging in a bit it appears to be something going on between SDDM, the nVidia > drivers and ACPI. I don't have the time to go much further right now so I'll > run it > with the Nouveau drivers until Dell release the Developer edition and see how > they

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-10 Thread Thomas Letherby
Digging in a bit it appears to be something going on between SDDM, the nVidia drivers and ACPI. I don't have the time to go much further right now so I'll run it with the Nouveau drivers until Dell release the Developer edition and see how they do it! :) Thomas On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:15 PM Ed

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/10/18 12:23, Thomas Letherby wrote: > > I'm trying to install the KDE spin on a Dell XPS 15 and I can't seem to get > the > nVidia drivers to install. > > I installed via a USB stick, and I had to add the dis_ucode_ldr switch to the > boot > options to get it to load and change to ACIP rath

Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-09 Thread Thomas Letherby
Hello all, I'm trying to install the KDE spin on a Dell XPS 15 and I can't seem to get the nVidia drivers to install. I installed via a USB stick, and I had to add the dis_ucode_ldr switch to the boot options to get it to load and change to ACIP rather than RAID for the drive, but it installed wi