New install will not boot - Fails at starting graphical interface
I already use F26 Gnome and F26 KDE in separate partitions - and I had no problems installing them. I am now trying to install F27 Gnome in another partition but this new install fails just before the login screen. I can boot into run level 3 but cannot get it into a graphics mode.
The computer is a 2012 macbook pro with nvidia. I have already added nomodeset to the grub linux line.
Given the last line of the log ouput:
Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section
it looks like I may need to do something with xorg.conf but not sure how to go about this.
I have included the output from the Xorg.0.log file below:
[ 39.501] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/log/Xorg.pid-1031.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
[ 39.574]
X.Org X Server 1.19.5
Release Date: 2017-10-12
[ 39.574] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 39.575] Build Operating System: 4.12.9-300.fc26.x86_64
[ 39.575] Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 4.13.5-300.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 16:57:11 UTC 2017 x86_64
[ 39.575] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.5-300.fc27.x86_64 root=UUID=644d44d7-13e5-46aa-9929-14fdbe23c709 ro nomodeset
[ 39.575] Build Date: 12 October 2017 07:35:27PM
[ 39.575] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.19.5-1.fc27
[ 39.575] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
[ 39.575] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 39.575] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 39.575] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 27 09:57:18 2017
[ 39.651] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 39.651] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 39.718] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 39.718] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 39.718] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 39.718] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 39.736] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 39.736] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 39.736] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 39.736] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 39.736] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[ 39.736] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 39.736] (==) FontPath set to:
catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
built-ins
[ 39.736] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
[ 39.736] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 39.736] (II) Loader magic: 0x821e00
[ 39.736] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 39.736] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 39.736] X.Org Video Driver: 23.0
[ 39.736] X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[ 39.736] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 39.739] (++) using VT number 1
[ 39.744] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org ...
It might be important to mention if you were using the
nouveau
driver on your F26 systems.Both the F26 gnome and kde systems were successfully installed with nouveau drivers working correctly. Later on nvidia drivers were added.
f27 is stated online to prefer nvidia over nouveau, so you might try installing that to see if it helps.
The interesting part seems to be this
This smells like a problem with the kernel device driver which I assume should be the
nouveau
driver. I don't have a Nvidia system, so I can't check. Some one else should step in here./sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA
Result:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1)
So it's Nvidia Optimus Technology. But like I said earlier - the nouveau driver has worked fine for all my previous installs.