[CentOS] CentOS 7 on a new Dell Precision

Tue May 4 19:21:51 UTC 2021
Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner at bc.edu>

I am trying to install CentOS 7 on  a Dell Precision 3640 and am
having some driver problems.

I had to use kmod-e1000e from ElReo enable networking on the:
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet
Connection (11) I219-LM [8086:0d4c]


I still don't have graphics. When starting Gnome, it shows the graphic
screen briefly but reverts to the text login.

It has two graphics cards:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device
[8086:9bc5] (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Lexa XT [Radeon PRO WX 3200] [1002:6981] (rev 10)

lsmod shows i915 and amdgpu modules loaded
but Xorg.0.log says the modules amdgpu cannot be found. Is it a version issue?
Dell has a Radeon driver for RHEL 8, but not for 7.

I have no xorg.conf file.

[    54.839]
X.Org X Server 1.20.4
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    54.840] Build Operating System:  3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
[    54.840] Current Operating System: Linux isr3c538b3kenn 3.10.0
1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 21:49:45 UTC 2021 x86_64
[    54.840] Kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.01160.25.1.el7.x86_64
root=/dev/mapper/centos-root ro crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos/root
rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[    54.840] Build Date: 24 February 2021  09:09:20PM
[    54.840] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.20.4-15.el7_9
[    54.840] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
[    54.840] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.orgto make
sure that you have the latest version.
[    54.840] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    54.840] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May  3
14:31:21 2021
[    54.840] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    54.840] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[    54.840] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[    54.840] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[    54.840] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[    54.840] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen
Section". Using a default monitor configuration.
[    54.840] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    54.840] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    54.840] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    54.840] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[    54.840] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[    54.840] (==) FontPath set to:
catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
built-ins
[    54.840] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
[    54.840] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices
.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[    54.840] (II) Loader magic: 0x561cda874020
[    54.840] (II) Module ABI versions:
[    54.840] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[    54.840] X.Org Video Driver: 24.0
[    54.840] X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[    54.840] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[    54.841] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[    54.841] (II) Platform probe for
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/drm/card0
[    54.843] (--) PCI:*(0 at 0:2:0) 8086:9bc5:1028:098d rev 5, Mem
@0xa1000000/16777216, 0x80000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64, BIOS
@ 0x????????/131072
[    54.843] (--) PCI: (1 at 0:0:0) 1002:6981:1028:2b0d rev 16, Mem
@0x4100000000/4294967296, 0x4080000000/2097152, 0xa2100000/262144, I/O
@0x00003000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[    54.843] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    54.844] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[    54.844] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.844] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    54.844] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[    54.844] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 0
[    54.844] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[    54.844] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2
[    54.844] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[    54.844] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[    54.844] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
[    54.844] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
[    54.844] (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.844] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 19.0.1
[    54.844] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    54.844] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.844] (II) LoadModule: "amdgpu"
[    54.844] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module amdgpu
[    54.844] (EE) Failed to load module "amdgpu" (module does not exist, 0)
[    54.844] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    54.844] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[    54.844] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.844] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.20.4
[    54.844] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    54.844] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.844] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    54.844] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[    54.844] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.844] compiled for 1.20.1, module version = 0.5.0
[    54.844] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    54.844] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.844] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    54.844] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[    54.844] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.844] compiled for 1.20.1, module version = 2.4.0
[    54.844] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    54.844] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.844] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    54.844] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[    54.844] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[    54.844] (++) using VT number 2

[    54.845] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    54.845] (II) modeset(1): using default device
[    54.845] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[    54.845] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[    54.845] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[    54.845] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.845] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.0.2
[    54.845] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.845] (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device
[    54.845] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[    54.845] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[    54.845] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[    54.845] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[    54.845] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.845] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.0.2
[    54.845] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    54.845] (II) FBDEV(3): using default device
[    54.845] vesa: Refusing to run on UEFI
[    54.845] (II) modeset(G0): using drv /dev/dri/card0
[    54.845] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    54.845] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[    54.845] (EE) Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    54.845] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[    54.845] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fbdevhw"
[    54.845] (II) modeset(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen sect
ion
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[    54.845] (==) modeset(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[    54.845] (DB) xf86MergeOutputClassOptions unsupported bus type 0
[    54.845] (==) modeset(0): RGB weight 888
[    54.845] (==) modeset(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    54.845] (II) Loading sub module "glamoregl"
[    54.845] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[    54.845] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
[    54.847] (II) Module glamoregl: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.847] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.1
[    54.847] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on AMD
POLARIS12 (DRM 3.27.0, 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64, LLVM 7.0.1)
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): glamor initialized
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-1 has no monitor section
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-2 has no monitor section
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-3 has no monitor section
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-4 has no monitor section
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output DP-1
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output DP-2
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output DP-3
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output DP-4
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-1 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-2 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-3 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-4 disconnected
[    54.890] (WW) modeset(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-1 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-2 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-3 disconnected
[    54.890] (II) modeset(0): Output DP-4 disconnected
[    54.890] (WW) modeset(0): Unable to find connected outputs - setting 1024x76
8 initial framebuffer
[    54.890] (==) modeset(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    54.890] (==) modeset(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[    54.890] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[    54.890] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    54.890] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[    54.890] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.890] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    54.890] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): Creating default Display subsection in
Screen section
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[    54.890] (==) FBDEV(1): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[    54.890] (==) FBDEV(1): RGB weight 888
[    54.890] (==) FBDEV(1): Default visual is TrueColor
[    54.890] (==) FBDEV(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): hardware: EFI VGA (video memory: 6892kB)
[    54.890] (DB) xf86MergeOutputClassOptions unsupported bus type 0
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): checking modes against framebuffer device...
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): checking modes against monitor...
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): Virtual size is 1680x1050 (pitch 1680)
[    54.890] (**) FBDEV(1):  Built-in mode "current": 176.4 MHz, 82.9 kHz, 77.2
Hz
[    54.890] (II) FBDEV(1): Modeline "current"x0.0  176.43  1680 1712 1920 2128
 1050 1054 1058 1074 -hsync -vsync -csync (82.9 kHz b)
[    54.890] (==) FBDEV(1): DPI set to (96, 96)
[    54.890] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[    54.890] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    54.890] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[    54.890] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.890] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    54.890] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.890] (**) FBDEV(1): using shadow framebuffer
[    54.890] (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
[    54.890] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
[    54.890] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
[    54.890] (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation
[    54.890] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.1.0
[    54.890] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.890] (==) modeset(G0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[    54.890] (==) modeset(G0): RGB weight 888
[    54.890] (==) modeset(G0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    54.890] (II) Loading sub module "glamoregl"
[    54.890] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[    54.890] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
[    54.890] (II) Module glamoregl: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.890] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.1
[    54.890] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): glamor X acceleration enabled on AMD
POLARIS12 DRM 3.27.0, 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64, LLVM 7.0.1)
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): glamor initialized
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): Output DP-1-1 has no monitor section
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): Output DP-1-2 has no monitor section
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): Output DP-1-3 has no monitor section
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): Output DP-1-4 has no monitor section
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): EDID for output DP-1-1
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): EDID for output DP-1-2
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): EDID for output DP-1-3
[    54.893] (II) modeset(G0): EDID for output DP-1-4
[    54.893] (==) modeset(G0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    54.893] (==) modeset(G0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[    54.893] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[    54.893] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    54.893] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[    54.893] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    54.893] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    54.893] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    54.893] (EE) modeset(G0): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument
[    54.893] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[    54.893] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for gpu driver 0 -1
[    54.893] (EE)
[    54.893] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
[    54.893] (EE) Please also check the log file at
"/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    54.893] (EE)
[    54.895] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.



Thanks if you have any recommendations.
tony