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Fedora 30 Video Driver(s)
A little background first: a week or two ago I did a 'dnf upgrade' which, among other things, put me on kernel 5.3.xx (5.3.4, I think it was, but I'm not sure) and rebooted. As soon as it went past the grub screen, the monitor went blank, the amber 'No Signal' light went on, and it stayed that way. I rebooted, same thing. The only way I could come up functional was to select the kernel 5.2.xx option in my grub list. Not coming up with any better options, I did a backup of my /home directory and installed a new system.
Guess what? SAME THING -- except that now my version 5.2.xx kernel was gone, so I could do nothing! After a little floundering around, I happened on doing an installation in rescue mode, which apparently didn't sense my video hardware and so installed some lesser-capability drivers, but did (and do) work correctly. I restored my /home directory, re-created my various users, re-installed the packages that I use but weren't part of the installation, etc., etc., etc. So, now I'm back to normal, EXCEPT that, every time I boot up and/or log in, I get a pop-up notification that says (quote): ---------------------------------- Check your video drivers Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration. You may experience poor performance and high CPU usage. ---------------------------------- The CPU usage isn't an issue, as I have a 6-core Dell Inspiron, but I do see a slight video degradation. I did replace my VGA cable with a DVI-to-HDMI cable, but that didn't help. Can anyone tell me what my options are to re-enable hardware acceleration? |
What to suggest you do likely depends on us knowing more about your PC than Inspiron and Fedora 30. F30 is working here. Try pasting in I/O from an X terminal as I have done here:
Code:
> rpm -qa | grep drv |
Okay, here goes:
-------------------------------------------------------------- [andy@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep drv xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-7.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-19.0.1-2.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.2.1-9.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.4.0-6.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-wacom-serial-support-0.36.1-6.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.36.1-6.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-42.20180618.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.5.0-3.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.29.0-1.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.5-11.fc30.x86_64 clalsadrv-2.0.0-19.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.10.6-4.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.6.0-7.fc30.x86_64 [andy@localhost ~]$ inxi -V | head -n1 inxi 3.0.35-00 (2019-07-15) [andy@localhost ~]$ inxi -GxxSza System: Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.2.1 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd2,gpt12)/vmlinuz-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 root=UUID=fb497a66-098a-4477-88c1-c9deb7b79e9c ro resume=UUID=bb512816-241a-4dab-a374-5315c5a529d2 nomodeset rhgb quiet Desktop: Cinnamon 4.2.4 wm: muffin dm: GDM, LightDM, LXDM, SDDM Distro: Fedora release 30 (Thirty) Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e92 Display: x11 server: Fedora Project X.org 1.20.5 driver: vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.1.7 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes [andy@localhost ~]$ xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 0 [andy@localhost ~]$ xrandr | head -n7 xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080 default connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1080 77.00* [andy@localhost ~]$ fpaste /var/log/Xorg.0.log Uploading (29.9KiB)... https://paste.centos.org/view/f3911765 [andy@localhost ~]$ --------------------------------------------------- Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to do the window box thing. Also, sorry for the delay; I've been out of town. |
A fundamental problem is your kernel cmdline contains nomodeset, which blocks use of competent X drivers. To test its removal, at the Grub menu strike the E key, then find nomodeset and remove it before proceeding with boot according to the instruction at the bottom of the edit screen. If this produces acceptable results, its permanent removal is done by removing it from /etc/default/grub and rebuilding the grub menu with grub2-mkconfig.
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...und-Your-Paste explains how to preserve formatting when you paste command output. If trouble remains, in addition to removing nomodeset, try removing rhgb, which should produce a lot of messages on screen as boot proceeds, possibly including one to help produce a solution. If trouble still remains, please try to provide the current Xorg.0.log and fresh output from xrandr and inxi. |
Removing "nomodeset" in /etc/default/grub seems to have been sufficient. I have to wonder how it got in there, but it doesn't matter; it's fixed. Thanks for your help.
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It's not unusual for nomodeset to be needed for the installation program to run.
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