New Laptop Issues - screen flicker and VMWare Workstation
by Sbob
All;
I picked up a new laptop yesterday, a Dell XPS 17 - DELL X9720
12700H/32/1/17P
See the output of lspci below
Here are the issues I am trying to solve:
1) If i do not install the NVIDIA drivers then a second monitor does not
work, if I do install the NVIDIA drivers then I get a screen flicker on
the laptop screen about every minute
2) VMWare workstation does not work with kernel 5.19.13-200.fc36.x86_64,
I have tried the patch found here:
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules
I have disabled secure boot but the vmmon module will not load. VMWare
starts but if I try to start a VM I get this message:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.
Thanks in advance for any help
# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor Host
Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI
Express x16 Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake
Innovation Platform Framework Processor Participant (rev 02)
0000:00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4
PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4
PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4
PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4
PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core
Processor Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt
4 USB Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt
4 NHI #0 (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt
4 NHI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management
Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 51fc (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH USB 3.2
xHCI Host Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Shared SRAM
(rev 01)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi
WiFi (rev 01)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH
Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH
Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH
HECI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 51bb (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH eSPI
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake
PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH
SPI Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050
Mobile] (rev a1)
0000:aa:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
10000:e0:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI
Express x4 Controller #0 (rev 02)
10000:e0:06.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI
Express x4 Controller #2 (rev 02)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron/Crucial Technology
Device 5412
10000:e2:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Phison Electronics
Corporation E18 PCIe4 NVMe Controller (rev 01)
1 year, 6 months
Kernel upgrade breaks video
by Sbob
All;
I am running Fedora 35 on a LG Gram 17
Its been running great, however yesterday I upgraded the kernel from:
5.19.11-100.fc35.x86_64
to:
5.19.12-100.fc35.x86_64
Now if I boot into the latest kernel my external monitor is no longer
reckognized, if I boot the new kernel with the external monitor attached
I never get a login prompt but I just get a black screen
Thoughts on how to debug?
Thanks in advance
1 year, 6 months
