Black screen after GRUB menu

[SteveRiley]

Would you try again? I edited my post #41 apparently too late for you to see the change. I've added i915 to each line.

[MoonBlossom]

lsmod | egrep -i 'intel|nvidia|nouveau'

intel_rapl             18773  0 
intel_powerclamp       14705  0 
kvm_intel             143109  0 
kvm                   451552  1 kvm_intel
ghash_clmulni_intel    13216  0 
aesni_intel            55624  2 
aes_x86_64             17131  1 aesni_intel
snd_hda_intel          56451  5 
lrw                    13286  1 aesni_intel
snd_hda_codec         192906  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
glue_helper            13990  1 aesni_intel
ablk_helper            13597  1 aesni_intel
snd_pcm               102099  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         18710  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
cryptd                 20359  3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
snd                    69322  21 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi

egrep -i 'intel|nvidia|nouveau' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[    32.246] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[    32.246] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 1
[    32.246] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[    32.247] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[    32.264] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    32.265] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
[    32.265] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics: 2000-6000
[    32.265] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics: 5100, 6100
[    32.265] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics: 5200, 6200, P6300
[    32.265] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20080730
[    32.265] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 (Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@ubuntu.com>)
[    32.265] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled for use with valgrind
[    32.266] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400
[    32.266] (--) intel(0): CPU: x86-64, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, avx, avx2
[    32.266] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
[    32.266] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[    32.266] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
[    32.266] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    32.266] (II) intel(0): Output eDP1 has no monitor section
[    32.266] (--) intel(0): Found backlight control interface acpi_video0 (type 'firmware') for output eDP1
[    32.266] (II) intel(0): Output HDMI1 has no monitor section
[    32.266] (--) intel(0): Using a maximum size of 64x64 for hardware cursors
[    32.266] (II) intel(0): Output VIRTUAL1 has no monitor section
[    32.266] (--) intel(0): Output eDP1 using initial mode 1920x1080 on pipe 0
[    32.266] (==) intel(0): TearFree disabled
[    32.266] (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[    32.275] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Haswell (gen7.5, gt2) backend
[    32.275] (==) intel(0): Backing store enabled
[    32.275] (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
[    32.275] (II) intel(0): HW Cursor enabled
[    32.275] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[    32.276] (==) intel(0): DPMS enabled
[    32.276] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[    32.276] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[    32.276] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: i965
[    32.276] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 DRI3 enabled
[    32.276] (II) intel(0): hardware support for Present enabled
[    32.276] (==) intel(0): display hotplug detection enabled
[    32.753] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event
[    32.756] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1920x1080@60.0 on eDP1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
[    32.764] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 285
[    32.820] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event14)
[    32.821] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 (/dev/input/event13)
[    32.821] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 (/dev/input/event12)
[    32.822] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Mic (/dev/input/event10)
[    32.822] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Headphone (/dev/input/event9)
[    37.600] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LGD", prod id 1022
[    37.600] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    37.600] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0  138.70  1920 1968 2000 2080  1080 1083 1088 1111 -hsync -vsync (66.7 kHz eP)

[SteveRiley]

What's the output of

lsmod | egrep -i 'intel|i915|nvidia|nouveau'

egrep -i 'intel|i915|nvidia|nouveau' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[MoonBlossom]

Seems to run just fine.

[SteveRiley]

What happens if you boot the 3.13 kernel now?

[MoonBlossom]

I went into the firmware and enabled discreet graphics. I still got a black screen. I don't see an option to disable the Intel graphics in the firmware. Disabling the discreet graphics only disables the NVidia card.

[SteveRiley]

Hm. I'm a little mystified here -- DKMS senses that 3.13 is available for build, but it isn't finding the headers. Weird.

But -- you have successfully installed the drivers for 3.16. So let's test it. Back in the firmware, disable the Intel graphics and enable the NVIDIA graphics. Then reboot, and select the 3.16 kernel. If everything's correct, you should boot fine. If you get a black screen, then you'll need to disable NVIDIA/enable Intel and come back here for more.

[MoonBlossom]

Here it is::
moonblossom@dusk:~$ sudo dkms build nvidia-331-updates/331.89 -k 3.
3.13.0-24-generic 3.13.0-37-generic 3.16.0-23-generic 3.8.0-31-generic

[MoonBlossom]

TAB doesn't seem to do anything for me.

[SteveRiley]

Don't press Enter -- just press the four Tabs immediately after you type the -k. We'll get back to the hardware issue in just a moment. I want to see what happens when you do this exercise.

[MoonBlossom]

I typed the command and did four tabs. Nothing changes.

[SteveRiley]

moonblossom@dusk:~$ sudo dkms build nvidia-331-updates/331.89 -k
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-37-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located

Is this after the four Tabs I asked? That's weird. I was expecting:

First tab: a space

Second tab: a 3.1

Third tab: nothing

Fourth tab: a new line containing 3.13.0-37-generic 3.16.0-23-generic and then the prompt with the partial command reappearing on the next line.

[MoonBlossom]

Oh no, it was the Nvidia driver that got disabled

moonblossom@dusk:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:64 memory:b2000000-b23fffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:5000(size=64)

[SteveRiley]

I don't know which one got disabled. The BIOS was not very clear about that. I assumed it was the intel card the one that got disabled.

sudo lshw -C display will confirm which one is currently in use. What's its output?

[MoonBlossom]

moonblossom@dusk:~$ sudo dkms build nvidia-331-updates/331.89 -k
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-37-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located