Unable to install graphics driver on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

[doug....@presagis.com]

I've got a PandBoard ES OMAP4460 that I've been trying to get working w/ Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin desktop.  I tried the default installation instructions here and the device boots just fine.  However, when I tried to install the OMAP4 add-ons, I ran into a number of dependency issues w/ the install and couldn't get my system to reboot afterwards. 

After seeing this post, I started again using this update and things seem to be more stable.  However, the display resolution has been reduce to 1024x768 and whenever I move the mouse the display flashes.

I ran the Additional Drivers tool, which finds the PowerVR SGX proprietary graphics driver for OMAP 4, which I was hopeful would fix my problem.  When I attempt to activate it, however, it says the installation of the driver failed.  The warnings and errors from the log file it references are shown below:

2013-02-07 11:55:51,448 DEBUG: updating <jockey.detection.LocalKernelModulesDriverDB instance at 0x1575aa8>
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2013-02-07 11:55:58,429 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,176 WARNING: modinfo for module ath_pci failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ath_pci
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,189 WARNING: modinfo for module vmxnet failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module vmxnet
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,261 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_96 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_96
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,293 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_current failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_current
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,321 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_current_updates failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_current_updates
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,347 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_96_updates failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_96_updates
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,373 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_173_updates failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_173_updates
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,399 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_173 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_173
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,424 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_experimental_310 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_experimental_310
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,449 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_experimental_304 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_experimental_304
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,483 WARNING: modinfo for module fglrx_updates failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module fglrx_updates
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,514 WARNING: modinfo for module fglrx_experimental_9 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module fglrx_experimental_9
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,541 WARNING: modinfo for module fglrx failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module fglrx
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2013-02-07 11:55:59,571 WARNING: modinfo for module cedarview_gfx failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module cedarview_gfx
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2013-02-07 11:56:13,571 WARNING: /sys/module/omapdrm_pvr/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind omapdrm_pvr driver
2013-02-07 11:56:13,798 ERROR: xorg:omapdrm_pvr: get_alternative_by_name(pvr-omap4-egl) returned nothing
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2013-02-07 11:56:13,923 DEBUG: current alternative of pvr-omap4-egl is None, not enabled

My suspicion is that the problem has to do w/ omapdrm_pvr since it's specifically mentioned in the instructions mentioned above. I checked to see if it was installed and it was not.  However, after reinstalling pvr-omap4-dkms as directed, I checked again and it still was not installed.  How do I get this package?

The main objective of my application is graphics, so running w/o hardware acceleration is really not an option for me.

Note that for my project I don't have an OS requirement, so I'm more than happy to migrate to a different version of the OS if that would be more stable.

[doug....@presagis.com]

Does anyone have any ideas how to move forward on this?  Do the add-ons install correctly on the previous version of the OS?

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:18 PM, <doug....@presagis.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas how to move forward on this? Do the add-ons
> install correctly on the previous version of the OS?

12.04 is the right version currently supported, so this part is ok.

can you tell us more about the issues you faced when instaling
ubuntu-omap4-extras?

also, can you post the output of 'dpkg -l', 'uname -a', 'dmesg' and 'lsmod'.

thx

[doug....@presagis.com]

Thanks for the reply.

When I tried to install ubuntu-omap4-extras I ran into lots of dependency issues.  ubuntu-omap4-extras required ubuntu-omap4-extras-multimedia and ubuntu-omap4-extras-graphics to be installed.  ubuntu-omap4-extras-graphics required omap4-pvr-libs, which required pvr-omap4, which required libegl1-sgx-omap4 and pvr-omap4-utils.  While being required to install all of the dependencies manually was annoying, it eventually let me install ubuntu-omap4-extras and seemed to complete successfully.  However, when I tried to reboot, the computer would just hang.  That's when I noticed this post, which apart from the graphics driver seems to result in a much more stable system.

The other data you requested is attached.

[Xavier Boudet]

Hello,

It shall be good to understand why ubuntu-omap4-extras refused to be install, can you send the output of:
apt-get install ubuntu-omap4-extras

Then, the attachment you sent seems correct, except the ubuntu-omap4-extras package...

Regards, Xavier Boudet

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[doug....@presagis.com]

Xavier,

Here is the output you requested.

[doug....@presagis.com]

Please note the dependency issues I'm describing here occurred when using the original installation instructions available from the PandaBoard website, not when using Xavier's updated instructions referenced in this link.

[doug....@presagis.com]

Xavier,

The only part of the output (see extra.txt attachment to previous post for the complete list) that looks like it could be an error to me is the following.  However, when I tried to install this package it says that it is already at the newest version.  Do you see anything else that could be problematic?  Any ideas how I can resolve this?

  Package linux-headers-ti-omap4 is not installed.

On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:28:01 AM UTC-6, Xavier Boudet wrote:

[doug....@presagis.com]

From Xavier....

Concerning extras.txt, you need indeed to remove linux-headers-omap4 and keep linux-headers-ti-omap4
The fact you have forced the installation of Canonical driver on top of TI PPA might have broken something...

Concerning log.txt, only "2013-02-07 11:56:13,798 ERROR: xorg:omapdrm_pvr: get_alternative_by_name(pvr-omap4-egl) returned nothing" is really worrying.
Please execute (after you have installed linux-headers-ti-omap4):
sudo apt-get install --reinstall  pvr-omap4 pvr-omap4-data pvr-omap4-dkms pvr-omap4-libs pvr-omap4-utils pvr-omap4-xf86 libegl1-sgx-omap4 libgles1-sgx-omap4 libgles2-sgx-omap4

This seemed to resolve the issue.  Thanks.