Bug#626279: Displays black screen when binutils-gold is installed

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 18:28:50 +0200
Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:

> > I tried installing binutils-gold package (2.21.51.20110421-4). The driver
> > builds fine, but then all I get is a black screen. Xorg is completely
> > unresponsive, zapping doesn't work, switching consoles is impossible.
> > The monitor doesn't even switch to the native resolution: it simply turns
> > black. xorg.log is empty.
> 
> Thanks for testing this in detail. Could you try the binutils-gold from
> stable, too?

That's hard for me, I use unstable everywhere.

> Is there a message in dmesg about the module being loaded?

Yes.

[   40.031430] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   40.735485] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   40.735493] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

It looks identical to a 'standard ld' link. modprobe and rmmod work fine.
It also seems to load, at least partially, in xorg:

[    23.791] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    23.791] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[    24.089] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    24.117]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[    24.117]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver

but then the log file stops. Since I have to kill the entire machine I'm unsure if the file didn't flush or if that's the complete output.

In fact, it took me a while to figure out that I tried installing 'gold' some days ago, since everything kept working for days until I rebooted.

> > I see there is already a bug (see #617391) reported on binutils-gold, but I
> > feel that nvidia-kernel-dkms should conflict with gold with at least a
> > versioned dependency until someone gets a working module out of it.
> 
> OK, I'll reinstate the conflicts in the next upload.

Thanks.