Created attachment 142620 [details] dmesg showing the errors and the lockup. using noaccel=1 So a new thinkpad: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] (rev a1) Hangs whenever I try to poke at the card. It starts happily enough with [ 3.971515] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] +(20181003/nsarguments-66) [ 3.971553] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] +(20181003/nsarguments-66) [ 3.971721] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status dynamic power, hda bios codec supported [ 3.971726] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle [ 3.971727] nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM [ 3.971745] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 3.971923] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) [ 4.009875] PM: Image not found (code -22) [ 4.135752] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 4096 MiB [ 4.135753] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 536870912 MiB [ 4.135754] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: BIT table 'A' not found [ 4.135755] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: BIT table 'L' not found [ 4.135756] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0 [ 4.135756] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.1 [ 4.135757] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 02800f76 04600020 [ 4.135758] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02011f62 00020010 [ 4.135759] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 01022f46 04600010 [ 4.135760] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 01033f56 04600020 [ 4.135761] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00020047 [ 4.135761] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00010161 [ 4.135762] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00001246 [ 4.135763] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 03: 00002346 [ 4.508355] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 4.508355] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. [ 4.509812] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes [ 4.510144] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 2 Although that type mismatch is a bit worrying. And I'm not sure what prints PM: Image not found. But after a short while it gets pretty busy: [ 52.917009] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [NVPO] [ 52.917011] No Arguments are initialized for method [NVPO] [ 52.917012] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.NVPO, AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT (20181003/psparse-516) [ 52.917063] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.PGON, AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT (20181003/psparse-516) [ 52.917084] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PG00._ON, AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT (20181003/psparse-516) [ 52.917108] acpi device:00: Failed to change power state to D0 [ 52.969287] video LNXVIDEO:00: Cannot transition to power state D0 for parent in (unknown) [ 52.969289] pci_raw_set_power_state: 2 callbacks suppressed [ 52.969291] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3 [ 53.029514] video LNXVIDEO:00: Cannot transition to power state D0 for parent in (unknown) [ 53.041027] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3 [ 53.041035] video LNXVIDEO:00: Cannot transition to power state D0 for parent in (unknown) [ 53.053008] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3 And then kernel proceeds to throw up errors at random places, e.g. [ 67.021892] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021895] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021897] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021900] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021927] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021928] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021932] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.021934] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 67.024463] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 99.980625] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Error sending STATISTICS_CMD: time out after 2000ms. followed by soft lockups and sometimes hard lockups in places like attempts to walk skb lists. Adding runpm=0 does away with this issue. The specific test was with noaccel=1 - it does not seem to change things for me. I poked at the ACPI method NVPO and yes it does actually seem to execute a while loop waiting for some register to become 0. Which I guess never happens? Because card is in a low power state and so reads return ffffffff maybe? X isn't happy even with runpm=0 but that might be a different issue - I thought runpm=0 might be an easier place to start debugging things given there are logs of the failure. Using kernel 4.20.0-rc3 right now. Userspace bits are from fedora 29: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-6.fc29.x86_64 firmware is pretty recent: linux-firmware-20181008-88.gitc6b6265d.fc29.noarch
Created attachment 142646 [details] acpi dump from the machine
Created attachment 142647 [details] output of lspci -x
As an update, with kernel kernel-5.3.11-300.fc31.x86_64 and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-8.fc31.x86_64 just adding nouveau.runpm=0 nouveau.noaccel=1 seems to be enough to make the system at least boot and be able to show the outputs connected to the Nvidia card. I did not test that it actually works though - intend to try once I'm near an external monitor. If there is interest in figuring out why is noaccel required, let me know pls.
just to clarify, without noaccel=1, I see lots of timeout warnings, all around this line: drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmmgf100.c:224 gf100_vmm_invalidate+0x1c9/0x1e0 [nouveau] and then things like xrandr seem to hang.
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