Nvidia: Xorg crashes on 15.04: "drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument"

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Nvidia: Xorg crashes on 15.04: "drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument"

On a clean install of Ubuntu GNOME 15.04, I get the following screen after installing the Nvidia proprietary driver:

starting version 219
[  OK  ] Started ACPI event daemon.
                    Starting ACPI event daemon...
_

The last few lines from Xorg.0.log:

<snip>
[     3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[     3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[     3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: i965
[     3.660] (II) intel(G0): direct rendering: DRI2 enabled
[     3.660] (II) intel(G0): hardware support for Present enabled   
[     3.660] (EE) modeset(G1): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument
[     3.660] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[     3.660] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for gpu driver 1 -1
<snip>
[     3.661] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

(complete log here)

I tried all available proprietary Nvidia drivers.

System specifications:

• OS: Ubuntu GNOME 15.04
• CPU: Intel i5-3570K
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

How can this error be resolved?

Solution 1

The 'solution' for me is disabling the Intel integrated GPU. There are two ways to go about this:

UEFI/BIOS

Disable the Intel GPU in your UEFI/BIOS settings. How to go about this differs per motherboard. For an Asrock Z77 Pro4 it meant setting:

Advanced > North Bridge Configuration > IGPU Multi-Monitor: Disabled

On other motherboards it can probably be found in a similar location.

Blacklist Kernel Driver

The other option is to blacklist the kernel driver (i1915), which is explained in this answer.
Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add: blacklist i915.

This can be done by switching to a TTY (ctrl+alt+f1), logging in and running:

echo "blacklist i915" | sudo tee --append /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

After rebooting, the Intel GPU will no longer work but the Nvidia GPU will work and (hopefully) Xorg will no longer crash.

Solution 2

First I switched to a console (CTRL-ALT-F1). Then I removed all nvidia stuff with

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nvidia-*

and reinstalled the nouveau driver using

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveu

then

sudo reboot

I know this is probably not what both of us want but it is still better than no desktop at all...

My Setup (for completeness):

• OS: Ubuntu 15.04
• CPU: Intel i5-4570S
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 610

Solution 3

Try to run nvidia-xconfig after nvidia drivers installation. Then reboot.

Comments

[Silke]

Thanks for taking the time to answer this. Unfortunately the Nouveau driver is very crash-happy for me. As I said in another comment, disabling the Intel GPU completely solved the issue for me. I'll add an answer with some details about how to do this when I have some time to tinker. I've upvoted your answer as it is a workaround that might be satisfactory for people googling this issue.

[tokam]

This did notw ork for me. The system still crashes. The reinstall command did not work because the package was not found.

[GuySoft]

Blacklisting is not possible on Optimus chipsets