On 03/21/15 22:26, Kevin Abbey wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Supermicro X10SRA-F (with IPMI bmc with iKVM) and Nvidia gpu which is booting ok but after grub the local display is blank. > > I loaded the optimized settings in the bios, then edited in bios: > > 1. IO --> PCIe/PCI/Pnp --> make sure ASPM Support is disabled, > 2. set VGA priority PCI-E slot that you have the video card connected to. > 3. Save the changes and reboot. > > > When I boot a fedora live dvd the video works. It worked a few times initially when I boot the ssd disk with the fedora installation. Now it gets to grub, boots kernel and then nothing but a blank screen, yet the screen does not go to sleep. It appears to still have a signal in fact and X for the mouse even was active twice. > > Using a remote ssh connection and the iKVM I tried: > -- reinstalling the Nvidia driver > -- removing the proprietary nvidia driver and using nouveau but that had the same resulting blank screen. > > > These vga cards present are: > > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1) > 0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 30) > > > While it is possible to reinstall the system and hope the problem disappears by default, I would much rather understand how to edit the display management configuration to make this work properly. Since the system-config-display was removed I have not learned how to edit the display options except for the basic display preferences dialog. > > Additional guidance is appreciated. > In my experience these sorts of problems are best tackled by configuring the system to boot into multi-user.target instead of graphical.target and then using "startx". Also, looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log may provide additional information on what may be going wrong. -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
