F12 not working with Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphics card

[Greystoke]

Hi,

After a fresh install of F12 on pc with Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphics card, Login hangs once booted.

Worked fine on f11.

Can anyone help with this please.

[Hlingler]

Try booting with kernel parameter nomodeset, see if that helps... .

V

[Greystoke]

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work.

[Hlingler]

Can you get into a VT or boot to run-level 3, or somehow upload a copy of the Xorg log from the failed X-session ?
/var/log/Xorg.0.log[.old]

Attach (do NOT post) to a post (or upload to fpaste.org or similar file-sharing site).

V

[Greystoke]

http://pastebin.com/m27d7d88b

[Hlingler]

I don't see any real problems there (which does not mean that there aren't any, just that I don't see any), so I can only guess at a possible problem between the desktop environment and the video driver (which I have seen before), and suggest a bug report.

V

[Greystoke]

Without nomodeset

Xorg.0.log

http://pastebin.com/m5a7e3f07

Xorg.0.log.old

http://pastebin.com/m217e9264

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Greystoke

Without nomodeset

Xorg.0.log

http://pastebin.com/m5a7e3f07

Xorg.0.log.old

http://pastebin.com/m217e9264

Why haven't you edited grub.conf to stop nouveau from loading?

Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=ie rhgb quiet

[Greystoke]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Why haven't you edited grub.conf to stop nouveau from loading?

Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=ie rhgb quiet

How do I do that.

[Hlingler]

Xorg.log.old has this starting at line 698, but I don't know what it means (other than it's Not Good™©®):

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80e587c]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x5eb66) [0x80a6b66]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0x3db40c]
3: /lib/libc.so.6 (memcpy+0x46) [0x4cbfa6]
4: /lib/libc.so.6 (memcpy+0xb35ea0a8) [0xb3ab6008]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x4957) [0x3c3957]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x4dc7) [0x3c3dc7]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x6620) [0x3c5620]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x37e3) [0x3c27e3]
9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0xebd4) [0x3cdbd4]
10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x93ee) [0x3c83ee]
11: /usr/bin/Xorg (miCopyRegion+0x213) [0x8196a93]
12: /usr/bin/Xorg (miDoCopy+0x44d) [0x8196fbd]
13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x3bf000+0x789b) [0x3c689b]
14: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xd5ad4) [0x811dad4]
15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x14fe23) [0x8197e23]
16: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x15cecb) [0x81a4ecb]
17: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x15d4b5) [0x81a54b5]
18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0x624000+0x19e2d) [0x63de2d]
19: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x16b32b) [0x81b332b]
20: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0xa001b) [0x80e801b]
21: /usr/bin/Xorg (BlockHandler+0x58) [0x80736b8]
22: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x10c) [0x80a0e1c]
23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x25f30) [0x806df30]
24: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a8c5) [0x80628c5]
25: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x46abb6]
26: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a4b1) [0x80624b1]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Obviously a fatal error.

Try a full OS software update yet (yes: only one day after release, there may be an update to Xorg server that fixes...). If not: you need to file a bug report (or else suffer and wait).

V

[Hlingler]

Umm... but he's got a Riva TNT2 chipset (which is unsupported by NVidia), and is not attempting the proprietary NVidia driver, just trying to log into a desktop with default "nouveau". Or did I miss something ?

V

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Umm... but he's got a Riva TNT2 chipset (which is unsupported by NVidia), and is not attempting the proprietary NVidia driver, just trying to log into a desktop with default "nouveau". Or did I miss something ?

V

I believe that the nomodset option is still required.

[Greystoke]

Still didn't work

[pwalden]

I have a similar problem and submitted bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555202