linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 + nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver + xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 01/14/2017 02:26 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> <This was my report for the 4.8.0-2 kernel> And it still works.
> I updated Sid/testing a couple days ago and retested current drivers,
> "nouveau" is working with sddm okay but froze with plasma(colorful
> lighting bolts).  Current nvidia-legacy-304xx is working with XRender
> and compositing enabled and I'm good with that, tested on Stretch too,
> now I can do clean upgrades and I'm happy. Thank you Debian!
>
> linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 is behaving like image-4.8 used to behave
> nouveau froze with plasma(colorful lighting bolts).  Debian's
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver is freezing with plasma start.
>
> On first boot plasma loaded the vga driver giving me the wrong screen
> size and did not load the installed nvidia driver at all. Booting
> linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 and reinstalling nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver
> crashed plasma and so did nouveau. I'm back to using
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver and linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64 with XRender
> and compositing enabled.

Here are some bits from log files:
Kernel log:
[    0.888338] rtc_cmos 00:02: alarms up to one year, y3k, 242 bytes 
nvram, hpet irqs

System log:
[    0.888542] rtc_cmos 00:02: alarms up to one year, y3k, 242 bytes 
nvram, hpet irqs

First boot with new kernel:
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	kernel	[   39.088148] NVRM: Your system is not 
currently configured to drive a VGA console
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	kernel	[   39.088157] NVRM: on the primary VGA 
device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	kernel	[   39.088160] NVRM: requires the use of 
a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	kernel	[   39.088162] NVRM: drivers including, 
but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	kernel	[   39.088164] NVRM: corruption and 
stability problems, and is not supported.
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Running display setup script 
"/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Display server started.
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Socket server starting...
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Socket server started.
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Greeter starting...
1/14/17 7:51 PM	jimmy-1	sddm[595]	Adding cookie to 
"/var/run/sddm/{f73eabcb-08df-499d-83bc-90cf9a367ba1}"

NVRM: DRM init failed

Is something missing in the kernel, maybe a module?
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma Version 5.8.4 - EXT4 at sda17
Registered Linux User #380263