I started off trying to update my computer and this has been now a few weekends of hell. This is a self-built desktop with an Nvidia GEForce 1070 graphics card
Problem
(primary)-display manager will not load. Currently trying sddm, but basically the same symptoms with lightdm, gdm, and slim.
(secondary)- I have Nvidia in order to run with tensorflow, but I was only able to get that working without having display and have since removed those and am not without working nvidia or display.
(tertiary) - It never shows me the grub menu - I'd be willing to scrap this thing and reboot from USB, but I can't figure it out. I can't even get into my bios, which I'm not sure if that's because I have an HDMI monitor, but it just shows blank.
- I have tried toggling wayland
- Installed/uninstalled nvidia drivers (430) from the repository or using their run libraries with ( I get an error: "unable to load nvidia-drm")
- I actually upgraded from Bionic to Disco just to see if that would help
- I've moved display managers from sddm, lightdm, slim, and gdm3
- I realize that it keeps using nouveau and I have yet to get it to stop using nouveau despite adding to a blacklist, setting modeset=0 nomodeset=0, and nouveau.modeset=0
I would appreciate any and all help.
Hardware 7: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.386] <..removed for brevity.> Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x1b81 "GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]" <..removed for brevity.> Driver Info #0: Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidiafb" Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Driver Info #2:
Driver Status: nvidia_drm is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia_drm"
Driver Info #3:
Driver Status: nvidia is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)
28: PCI 02.0: 0380 Display controller [Created at pci.386] Hardware Class: graphics card Device Name: "Onboard IGD" Model: "Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop)" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x3e92 "UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop)" SubVendor: pci 0x1458 "Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd" SubDevice: pci 0xd000 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "i915" <..removed for brevity.>
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: i915 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Primary display adapter: #17
grub
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=12
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.modeset=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"
**modprobe sddm ** (errors) sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; indirect; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Sun 2019-08-18 19:13:20 EDT; 20s ago Docs: man:sddm(1) man:sddm.conf(5) Process: 6080 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/bin/sddm" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 6082 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm (code=dumped, signal=ABRT) Main PID: 6082 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Aug 18 19:13:18 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Service RestartSec=1s expired, scheduling restart.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'core- dump'.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Aug 18 19:13:20 dirac systemd[1]: sddm.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.
things I've read/tried/are reasonably close to issues I have
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611427
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1049262/linux/unable-to-load-the-nvidia-drm-kernel-module-/
http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/how-to-install-latest-nvidia-drivers-in-linux
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/failed-to-start-user-manager-for-uid-120/49202