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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000801 | channel: elrepo/el7 | kmod-nvidia | public | 2017-11-29 05:42 | 2017-12-02 13:36 |
| Reporter | alltheasimov | Assigned To | pperry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | unable to reproduce |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0000801: Unable to start GUI when switching NVIDIA Graphics Cards | ||||
| Description | System: Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-SLI CPU: i7-5960x (no graphics) Graphics cards: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition, GTX Titan SC (original) Background: Started with GTX Titan installed. Installed CentOS 7 from USB drive in basic graphics mode (installer would not load in normal mode: black screen). Did all updates. Then installed elrepo, did nvidia-detect, and installed kmod-nvidia. Reboot in normal mode. NVIDIA utility detects GTX Titan and appears to be using the NVIDIA driver. That all worked great. Problem: Shut down system, remove power. Switch out GTX Titan for GTX 1080. Boot. Get error that graphics driver couldn't load (forgot exact wording). Get root terminal. Attempt "startx" command - failed. Attempted to un-blacklist Nouveau driver and reboot. Didn't work, same error, get root terminal. Reinstalled CentOS 7 (clean) from same USB stick with GTX 1080 installed. Didn't need basic graphics mode this time for some reason. Did all updates. Then installed elrepo, did nvidia-detect, and installed kmod-nvidia. Reboot. NVIDIA utility detects GTX 1080 and appears to be using the NVIDIA driver. Shutdown, remove power. Switch out GTX 1080 for GTX Titan. Boot. GUI starts no problem, NVIDIA utility detects GTX Titan and appears to be using the NVIDIA driver. Shutdown, remove power. Switch out GTX Titan for GTX 1080. Boot. GUI starts no problem, NVIDIA utility detects GTX 1080 and appears to be using the NVIDIA driver. Cannot reproduce original error where graphics driver wouldn't load when switched from GTX Titan -> GTX 1080. Sorry, I don't have the logs or exact error wording. I figured I'd be able to reproduce the bug and save them then. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Reported upstream | |||||
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Acknowledged. If you able to reliably reproduce then please feel free to provide more information. |
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I reproduced it, but it has nothing to do with kmod-nvidia. Dug through the logs. Turns out that it was a cascade failure at boot starting with an inability to load a raid (not the OS's drive though), which caused a bunch of other errors, causing emergency mode to start, which prevents the gui from launching. |
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll close this report for now. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-29 05:42 | alltheasimov | New Issue | |
| 2017-11-29 05:42 | alltheasimov | Status | new => assigned |
| 2017-11-29 05:42 | alltheasimov | Assigned To | => pperry |
| 2017-11-29 13:41 | pperry | Note Added: 0005624 | |
| 2017-12-02 03:48 | alltheasimov | Note Added: 0005627 | |
| 2017-12-02 13:36 | pperry | Note Added: 0005628 | |
| 2017-12-02 13:36 | pperry | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2017-12-02 13:36 | pperry | Resolution | open => no change required |
