Re: Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:44 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:29 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks perhaps this is part of the problem:
>  ls -l /sys/kernel/debug/dri/
> total 0

This indicates that nouveau is not loaded. (Or loaded and failed
part-way through the load.)

Cheers,

  -ilia

Thanks I have this:

 grep nouveau /var/log/syslog
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Unloading nouveau
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Failed to load module "nouveau" (already loaded, 0)

grep Loading /var/log/syslog
Oct  1 09:47:47 mediaport57 kernel: [   12.300994] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
Oct  1 09:47:47 mediaport57 kernel: [   12.772319] blacklist: Loading compiled-in revocation X.509 certificates
Oct  1 09:47:47 mediaport57 kernel: [   37.869170] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
Oct  1 09:47:57 mediaport57 lxd.activate[846]: ==> Loading snap configuration
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "vbe"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "int10"
Oct  1 09:48:41 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
Oct  1 09:48:42 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "fb"
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading sub module "int10"
Oct  1 09:48:43 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
Oct  1 09:48:44 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1423]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so

lsmod | grep nouveau

What dont I have ? 

Jerry