[SOLVED] Debian - after changes x works for root but not for user (nvidia, i3)

keithostertag · 03-25-2017, 06:14 PM

After making system changes, my desktop x-windows immediately hangs when loading as a regular user, but works (mostly) if I invoke it as root. Everything else seems to work, though there are several errors in dmesg regarding the video setup. The changes I made include: getting rid of systemd, then upgrade then dist-upgrade. I did the same changes on a laptop with no problems.

I'm using a dual monitor system with the NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti].

I'm using Debian with the i3wm (the i3 window manager). I have always had this machine set to boot to the command line and invoke the gui with "startx". I do not use any Xorg.conf file anywhere, though I can't say why, there just isn't any on the system. I don't understand how these various pieces work together! So I could use some advice on how to proceed in analyzing this problem.

I've tried to make the root account and the user account the same by renaming the user specific files (.Xsession, and i3 config stuff).

So what files are making the gui hang when my regular user account tries to load it but allows my root account to run it?

nvidia-settings won't run, gives errors:

Code:

root@ada:~# nvidia-settings
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings --help` for
	   usage information.

Here are some sections from dmesg:

Code:

64655-[   61.680383] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
64739:[   61.768912] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
64820-[   61.847874] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
64886-[   61.924083] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
64973-[   62.015705] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
65055-[   62.102120] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
65133:[   62.187212] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0

For testing, I rm'd the /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Then when logging on as my regular user account and invoking startx (which immediately hangs) I see that a new /var/log/Xorg.o.log file was not created.

I then exit, and re-login as root and invoke startx. Here is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log that is then created:

Code:

root@ada:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 94632.165] 
X.Org X Server 1.19.2
Release Date: 2017-03-02
[ 94632.165] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 94632.166] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian
[ 94632.167] Current Operating System: Linux ada 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.13-1 (2017-02-27) x86_64
[ 94632.167] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=a4ee2002-944a-4073-984e-65e0a01a7d43 ro init=/lib/sysvinit/init console=hvc0 console=ttyS0
[ 94632.169] Build Date: 03 March 2017  03:14:41PM
[ 94632.169] xorg-server 2:1.19.2-1 (https://www.debian.org/support) 
[ 94632.170] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
[ 94632.171] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 94632.171] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 94632.173] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 25 18:42:49 2017
[ 94632.174] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 94632.175] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 94632.175] (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
[ 94632.175] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 94632.175] (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 94632.175] (**) |   |-->Device "Device0"
[ 94632.175] (**) |   |-->GPUDevice "Device0"
[ 94632.175] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 94632.175] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 94632.175] (**) Option "Xinerama" "0"
[ 94632.175] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 94632.175] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 94632.175] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 94632.175] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
[ 94632.175] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 94632.175] (**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	built-ins,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	built-ins
[ 94632.175] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 94632.175] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 94632.175] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 94632.175] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 94632.175] (II) Loader magic: 0x55c4faaeae00
[ 94632.175] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 94632.175] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 94632.175] 	X.Org Video Driver: 23.0
[ 94632.175] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[ 94632.175] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 94632.176] (++) using VT number 1

[ 94632.177] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
[ 94632.177] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[ 94632.179] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1380:ffff:ffff rev 162, Mem @ 0xee000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xe0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 94632.179] (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
[ 94632.179] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 94632.179] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libglx.so
[ 94632.183] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 94632.183] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 94632.183] 	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 94632.183] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  375.39  Tue Jan 31 19:37:12 PST 2017
[ 94632.183] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 94632.183] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 94632.183] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 94632.183] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 94632.183] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 94632.183] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  375.39  Tue Jan 31 19:13:22 PST 2017
[ 94632.183] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 94632.183] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 94632.183] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 94632.184] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 94632.184] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 94632.184] 	compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 94632.184] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 94632.184] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 94632.184] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 94632.184] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[ 94632.184] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 94632.184] 	compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 94632.184] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 94632.184] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 94632.184] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 94632.184] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 94632.185] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[ 94632.185] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 94632.185] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Stereo" "0"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "SLI" "Off"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Stereo disabled by request
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA SLI disabled.
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA Multi-GPU disabled.
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
[ 94632.185] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GPU-0 at PCI:1:0:0
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0):     CRT-0
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-0 (boot)
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-1 (boot)
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-2
[ 94632.748] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-3
[ 94632.750] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 750 Ti (GM107-A) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[ 94632.750] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 2097152 kBytes
[ 94632.750] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 82.07.55.00.34
[ 94632.750] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[ 94632.757] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-0: disconnected
[ 94632.757] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 94632.757] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[ 94632.770] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): NEC LCD1990SXp (DFP-0): connected
[ 94632.770] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): NEC LCD1990SXp (DFP-0): Internal TMDS
[ 94632.770] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): NEC LCD1990SXp (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 94632.770] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Acer AL1916 (DFP-1): connected
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Acer AL1916 (DFP-1): Internal TMDS
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Acer AL1916 (DFP-1): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: disconnected
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: Internal TMDS
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: disconnected
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: Internal DisplayPort
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: 960.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 94632.777] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[ 94632.782] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
[ 94632.782] (II) NVIDIA(0):    
[ 94632.782] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "DVI-I-1:nvidia-auto-select+1280+0,HDMI-0:nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
[ 94632.782] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2560 x 1024
[ 94632.788] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (85, 86); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
[ 94632.788] (--) NVIDIA(0):     option
[ 94632.788] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 94632.789] (II) NVIDIA: Using 12288.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory
[ 94632.789] (II) NVIDIA:     access.
[ 94632.832] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "DVI-I-1:nvidia-auto-select+1280+0,HDMI-0:nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
[ 94632.885] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
[ 94632.885] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled
[ 94632.885] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 94632.885] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
[ 94632.885] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[ 94632.885] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 94632.885] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[ 94632.885] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 94632.885] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
[ 94632.885] (--) RandR disabled
[ 94632.887] (II) SELinux: Disabled on system
[ 94632.888] (II) Initializing extension GLX
[ 94632.888] (II) Indirect GLX disabled.
[ 94632.923] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event3)
[ 94632.923] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 94632.923] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 94632.923] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 94632.923] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 94632.923] 	compiled for 1.19.1, module version = 2.10.5
[ 94632.923] 	Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[ 94632.923] 	ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
[ 94632.923] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[ 94632.923] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[ 94632.923] (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
[ 94632.923] (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
[ 94632.923] (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
[ 94632.923] (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5/event3"
[ 94632.923] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "altgr-intl"
[ 94632.923] (**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 94632.937] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event2)
[ 94632.937] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 94632.937] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[ 94632.937] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[ 94632.937] (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[ 94632.937] (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
[ 94632.937] (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
[ 94632.937] (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4/event2"
[ 94632.937] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7)
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "altgr-intl"
[ 94632.937] (**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 94632.937] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 (/dev/input/event7)
[ 94632.937] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.937] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.937] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 (/dev/input/event8)
[ 94632.937] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.937] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.937] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event6)
[ 94632.937] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.937] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.938] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HD Pro Webcam C920 (/dev/input/event5)
[ 94632.938] (**) HD Pro Webcam C920: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 94632.938] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HD Pro Webcam C920'
[ 94632.938] (**) HD Pro Webcam C920: always reports core events
[ 94632.938] (**) evdev: HD Pro Webcam C920: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
[ 94632.938] (--) evdev: HD Pro Webcam C920: Vendor 0x46d Product 0x82d
[ 94632.938] (--) evdev: HD Pro Webcam C920: Found keys
[ 94632.938] (II) evdev: HD Pro Webcam C920: Configuring as keyboard
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/input/input8/event5"
[ 94632.938] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "HD Pro Webcam C920" (type: KEYBOARD, id 8)
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "altgr-intl"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 94632.938] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver (/dev/input/event0)
[ 94632.938] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 94632.938] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Logitech USB Receiver'
[ 94632.938] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
[ 94632.938] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[ 94632.938] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Vendor 0x46d Product 0xc517
[ 94632.938] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
[ 94632.938] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:046D:C517.0001/input/input2/event0"
[ 94632.938] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "altgr-intl"
[ 94632.938] (**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 94632.939] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver (/dev/input/event1)
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 94632.939] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Logitech USB Receiver'
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
[ 94632.939] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Vendor 0x46d Product 0xc517
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found 12 mouse buttons
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found relative axes
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found x and y relative axes
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found absolute axes
[ 94632.939] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Forcing absolute x/y axes to exist.
[ 94632.939] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
[ 94632.939] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as mouse
[ 94632.939] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
[ 94632.939] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: Adding scrollwheel support
[ 94632.939] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 94632.939] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.1/0003:046D:C517.0002/input/input3/event1"
[ 94632.939] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD, id 10)
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "altgr-intl"
[ 94632.939] (**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 94632.939] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: initialized for relative axes.
[ 94632.939] (WW) evdev: Logitech USB Receiver: ignoring absolute axes.
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 94632.939] (**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 94632.939] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver (/dev/input/mouse0)
[ 94632.939] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.939] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.939] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Digital PCBeep (/dev/input/event9)
[ 94632.939] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.939] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Front Mic (/dev/input/event10)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic (/dev/input/event11)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Line (/dev/input/event12)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Line Out Front (/dev/input/event13)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Line Out Surround (/dev/input/event14)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Line Out CLFE (/dev/input/event15)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone (/dev/input/event16)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 94632.940] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event4)
[ 94632.940] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 94632.940] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.

Here are other system configuration snippets:

Code:

root@ada:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
Release:	9.0
Codename:	stretch

Code:

root@ada:~# lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] [10de:1380] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
root@ada:~# lshw -C display
  *-display                 
	   description: VGA compatible controller
	   product: GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]
	   vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
	   physical id: 0
	   bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
	   version: a2
	   width: 64 bits
	   clock: 33MHz
	   capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
	   configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
	   resources: irq:16 memory:ee000000-eeffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

Code:

root@ada:~# lspci -k|grep -iEA5 'vga|3d'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 84dd
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Code:

keith@ada:~$ uname -a
Linux ada 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.13-1 (2017-02-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:

when x hangs under user:
keith@ada:~$ ps aux |grep x
root       246  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Mar24   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root      1131  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Mar24   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root      1145  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Mar24   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root      1155  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Mar24   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root      1496  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Mar24   0:00 [xprtiod]
keith     2264  0.0  0.0   4288  1484 tty1     S+   18:07   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
keith     2286  0.0  0.0  22312  1120 tty1     S+   18:07   0:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 vt1 -keeptty -auth /tmp/serverauth.23OzRbhqZU
keith     2287  5.6  0.2 240124 46300 tty1     Sl   18:07   0:02 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -keeptty -auth /tmp/serverauth.23OzRbhqZU
keith     2295  0.0  0.0  58464  2508 tty1     S    18:07   0:00 /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/im-launch x-window-manager
keith     2345  0.0  0.0  47992   408 tty1     S    18:07   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax
keith     2371  0.0  0.0  11084   332 ?        Ss   18:07   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/im-launch x-window-manager
keith     2380  0.0  0.0 125020 11204 tty1     S    18:07   0:00 x-window-manager
keith     2412  0.0  0.0   4288   780 ?        S    18:07   0:00 /bin/sh -c i3bar --bar_id=bar-0 --socket="/tmp/i3-keith.M7xDS1/ipc-socket.2380"
keith     2414  0.0  0.0 106156  9464 ?        S    18:07   0:00 i3bar --bar_id=bar-0 --socket=/tmp/i3-keith.M7xDS1/ipc-socket.2380
keith     2418  0.0  0.0  14688  1700 tty1     S    18:07   0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/uim/uim-helper-server
keith     2489  0.0  0.0  38300  3336 pts/0    R+   18:07   0:00 ps aux
keith     2490  0.0  0.0  12784   972 pts/0    S+   18:07   0:00 grep x

Emerson · 03-26-2017, 10:54 AM

Check if your user is in video group, add if necessary. User needs access to /dev/dri/card0.

keithostertag · 03-26-2017, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

Check if your user is in video group, add if necessary. User needs access to /dev/dri/card0.

Thanks for the suggestion Emerson.

My user account was a member of video group.

The /dev/dri/card0 was not readable for world, so I chmod 777 but it made no difference. It is now:

Code:

keith@ada:~$ ls -ahl /dev/dri/card0
crwxrw-rwx+ 1 root video 226, 0 Mar 24 16:26 /dev/dri/card0

This is my personal home desktop which no one else uses, ever.

Shadow_7 · 03-26-2017, 06:02 PM

root:video seems about right. With the user in the video group. Remember to log in again to change the groups if that was a change. You might check $HOME/.Xauthority, if it is owned:grouped by someone other than the owner of $HOME, that could be an issue. Deleting it before starting X should help in that case. Depending on distro anyway, but that's a typical usage for .deb based ones.

Not that you should, but the user who started X can:

$ xhost local:

And any user should have access to X. Not that one should do that when starting X as root. Note that you might have to manually set $DISPLAY to use X as the user who didn't start X. Plus various don't do that as root scenarios. In the days of OLD you also needed a "SECTION "DRI"" in the xorg.conf with group and mode settings. But most distros are good about having that as a default these days.

keithostertag · 03-26-2017, 06:38 PM

Hi Shadow 7-

Thanks, I removed all restrictions from my user .Xauthority, and that made no change, so I tried simply deleting it and that mad eno change either.

As a user, when I host local: I get this:

Code:

keith@ada:~$ xhost local:
xhost   unable to open display ""

I then tried:

Code:

echo $DISPLAY

and it returned nothing.. a blank line. Actually, both my user account and the root user got those same results.

Yes, I had exited and re-logged in to make sure the groups were set.

Here's more detail:

Code:

keith@ada:~$ sudo dpkg -l nvidia* | grep ii
ii  nvidia-alternative              375.39-1     amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  nvidia-driver                   375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-driver-bin               375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  nvidia-driver-libs:amd64        375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries)
ii  nvidia-driver-libs:i386         375.39-1     i386         NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries)
ii  nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386    375.39-1     i386         NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES 32-bit libraries)
ii  nvidia-egl-common               375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL driver - common files
ii  nvidia-egl-icd:amd64            375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA EGL installable client driver (ICD)
ii  nvidia-egl-icd:i386             375.39-1     i386         NVIDIA EGL installable client driver (ICD)
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup:i386   20151021+4   i386         cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-common            20151021+4   amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms              375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii  nvidia-kernel-support           375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-legacy-check:i386        375.39-1     i386         check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy driver
ii  nvidia-modprobe                 375.26-1     amd64        utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
ii  nvidia-persistenced             375.26-2     amd64        daemon to maintain persistent software state in the NVIDIA driver
ii  nvidia-settings                 375.26-3     amd64        tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support                  20151021+4   amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64       375.39-1     amd64        Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver
ii  nvidia-vulkan-common            375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA Vulkan driver - common files
ii  nvidia-vulkan-icd:amd64         375.39-1     amd64        NVIDIA Vulkan installable client driver (ICD)
ii  nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386          375.39-1     i386         NVIDIA Vulkan installable client driver (ICD)
ii  nvidia-xconfig                  375.26-1     amd64        deprecated X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers

and my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Code:

keith@ada:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 375.26  (buildd@debian)  Fri Jan 13 02:38:29 UTC 2017

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 340.93  (buildd@debian)  

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath        "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "NEC LCD1990SXp"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 85.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
        ### <percent>: "<f>%"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "Accel"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorTiling"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorTiling2D"      	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"      	# [<str>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"        	# <str>
        #Option     "EXAVSync"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "EXAPixmaps"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZaphodHeads"        	# <str>
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SwapbuffersWait"    	# [<bool>]
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 750 Ti"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9.DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9.HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
# Removed Option "SLI" "off"
# Removed Option "BaseMosaic" "on"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
# Removed Option "SLI" "Off"
# Removed Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9.DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9.HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
# Removed Option "SLI" "off"
# Removed Option "BaseMosaic" "on"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Which files do I need to delete/re-install in order to start from scratch?

Thanks for your help!

Shadow_7 · 03-26-2017, 07:29 PM

$ COLUMNS=300 ps faux | grep X

The X should be running and one of the parms something like :0

$ export DISPLAY=":0"
$ xvidtune -show
$ xcalc

If you're running something like debian you might want to tasksel and select desktop.

$ sudo tasksel

It is mighty odd that DISPLAY isn't set though, and you definitely have some things missing. For distros like ubuntu, you can get most of what is needed with:

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

keithostertag · 03-26-2017, 09:11 PM

Thanks, but no, I don't want a DE. My i3 window manager is fine. I just need to get the video fixed.

Code:

keith@ada:~$ export DISPLAY=":0"
keith@ada:~$ xvidtune -show
Error: Can't open display: :0

If you look back a few messages you will see I already show the output from ps aux | grep x showing what gets loaded.

So my question now is- how to get the video back to square one so I can reload whatever is needed?

Thanks

keithostertag · 03-26-2017, 09:38 PM

Code:

keith@ada:~$ sudo dmesg|grep -i nvidia
[   32.170079] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[   32.170083] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   32.530231] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[   35.925408] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 244
[   35.925421] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  375.39  Tue Jan 31 20:47:00 PST 2017
[   41.081325] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card2/input17
[   41.081840] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card2/input18
[   41.082359] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card2/input19
[   45.479103] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  375.39  Tue Jan 31 19:41:48 PST 2017
[   45.829679] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[   62.540908] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[   62.889363] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
[   93.093994] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
[10750.252033] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-643266a5-5e0d-7f62-3c74-c541024686f9) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0

keithostertag · 03-26-2017, 10:13 PM

more error messages in dmesg:

Code:

[   32.795116] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047F (\PMIO) (20160831/utaddress-247)
[   32.795117] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   32.795122] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-247)
[   32.795123] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   32.795125] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-247)
[   32.795126] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   32.795128] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-247)
[   32.795131] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000000050F-0x000000000000050F (\_SB.PCI0.RLED.DBG0) (20160831/utaddress-247)
[   32.795131] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   38.373649] clocksource:                       'acpi_pm' wd_now: 7a81d7 wd_last: a7f49c mask: ffffff
[   38.507014] clocksource: Switched to clocksource acpi_pm

keithostertag · 03-29-2017, 08:02 PM

After more than a week trying to figure this out, I finally just put systemd back in... and now everything is working.

This is very strange... I had no problem eliminating systemd on my laptop, but then my laptop doesn't use nvidia drivers! So... what? evidently the Debian nvidia-driver package has some kind of hooks that require systemd? Very aggravating!!!