nouveau driver fails to open DRI device
Originally created by @emmapeel on #8076 (Redmine)
Reported by user in whisperback. Log available.
Tails-Version: 1.2~rc1 - 20141008
Computer: Dell Inc. XPS 8700
Graphic card in lspci is: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation
Device 1382 (rev a2)
Everything was fine in 1.1.1, and previous versions. Problem started
with 1.1.2 and continue in 1.2~rc1.
Actual result and description of the error
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Resolution issue is apparent starting at initial “Welcome to Tails, More options?” screen and continues after logging in. All of the graphics (text included) are very blocky and hard to see, but appear to be the right size.
After doing a little research xrandr is reporting that the screen is at the correct resolution of 1920x1080 (I had to redirect to a text file and read it later since the text was illegible), but my monitor thinks the resolution is at 640x480. It seems like somewhere the high resolution image is being subsampled down to the low resolution being displayed.
xorg is not loading the nouveau driver:
[ 62.880] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 62.880] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.1
[ 62.880] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 62.880] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.1
[ 62.880] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[ 62.880] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
[ 62.880] (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
[ 62.880] (II) Unloading nv
[ 62.880] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 62.880] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 62.880] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 62.880] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 62.880] compiled for 1.12.1, module version = 2.3.1
[ 62.880] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 62.880] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 62.880] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 62.880] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 62.880] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 62.880] compiled for 1.12.1, module version = 0.4.2
[ 62.880] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 62.880] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date: Fri Jul 6 16:23:50 2012 +1000
[ 62.880] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[ 62.880] RIVA TNT (NV04)
[ 62.880] RIVA TNT2 (NV05)
[ 62.880] GeForce 256 (NV10)
[ 62.880] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15)
[ 62.880] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)
[ 62.880] GeForce 3 (NV20)
[ 62.880] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)
[ 62.881] GeForce FX (NV3x)
[ 62.881] GeForce 6 (NV4x)
[ 62.881] GeForce 7 (G7x)
[ 62.881] GeForce 8 (G8x)
[ 62.881] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
[ 62.881] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
[ 62.881] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 62.881] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[ 62.881] (++) using VT number 9
[ 62.890] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 62.890] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[ 62.892] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
[ 62.892] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 62.892] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[ 62.892] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19
[ 62.892] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
[ 62.896] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.896] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
[ 62.899] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.899] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
[ 62.903] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.903] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
[ 62.907] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.907] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
[ 62.910] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.910] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
[ 62.914] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.914] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
[ 62.918] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.918] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
[ 62.921] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.921] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
[ 62.925] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.925] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
[ 62.929] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.929] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
[ 62.932] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.932] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
[ 62.936] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.936] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
[ 62.940] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.940] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
[ 62.943] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.943] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15
[ 62.947] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 62.947] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 62.947] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[ 62.948] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 62.948] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[ 62.948] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
[ 62.952] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
[ 62.955] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
[ 62.959] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
[ 62.963] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
[ 62.966] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
[ 62.970] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
[ 62.974] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
[ 62.977] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
[ 62.981] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
[ 62.985] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
[ 62.988] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
[ 62.992] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
[ 62.996] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
[ 62.999] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15
[ 63.003] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 63.003] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev