nvidia-driver fails to load gui

[Shawn Webb]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Hey All,
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>>>>>> More new laptop woes. The good-ish news is that the VESA driver
>>>>>> works, but
>>>>>> x11/nvidia-driver doesn't. I'm on a Lenovo Y50-70. When I run
>>>>>> `startx`, it
>>>>>> appears that xorg switches to a new vty, but doesn't actually bring
>>>>>> up the
>>>>>> UI. I see a new console (as in vty) with a cursor at the top left
>>>>>> corner.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> xorg.conf is pasted here: http://ix.io/1Dr
>>>>>> Xorg.0.log is pasted here: http://ix.io/1Dq
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll just use the VESA driver for now, but it'd be nice to be able to
>>>>>> hook
>>>>>> the laptop up to a second monitor or a projector, which I can't do
>>>>>> with the
>>>>>> VESA driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it an optimus laptop? Have you tried uninstalling nvidia driver and
>>>>> try the intel driver?
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>>>> It's a Lenovo Y50-70, which is running Intel Haswell, so the intel
>>>> driver won't work.
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>>> I'm afrad that the nvidia card would not work either, at least for the
>>> internal LCD.
>>> Some optimus cards only provide 3d acceleration, and some are only
>>> connected to HDMI/DisplayPort outputs. Have you tried other outputs on the
>>> laptop?
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>> I haven't tried the other outputs. My primary output will be the internal
>> LCD. What would it take to get it to work?
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> Wait for the kernel driver update which would support Haswell graphics?
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Who's in charge of that? I've pinged kib@ privately with no reply. Is there
a patchset that I can help test out on 11-current? What's the status? I'd
love to help get the Haswell update out the door, especially now that I
have multiple systems running Haswell.