nouveau: boot hangs at blank screen with unsupported graphics cards

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apport-collect 1602340

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

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Test Xenial amd64 kernel:

    http://people.canonical.com/~kamal/lp1602340/

comprised of 4.4.0-30.49 plus:

    UBUNTU: SAUCE: drm: check for supported chipset before booting fbdev off the hw
    (back-ported from https://github.com/skeggsb/nouveau.git 11fcd1624b0a1c73fe3b2fa15c3cc45816da0470)

Success with the patched test build! The nouveau patch allows our systems to boot into Unity with Pascal series cards without requiring nvidia-367.

Tested and successfully booted with:
*GTX 1070
*GTX 1080
*GTX 970
*GTX 950
*GTX 730

No regressions found so far.

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

Tested the proposed kernel with:

* GTX 970M
* GTX 970
* GTX 1080

All three systems boot into unity as expected with the proposed kernel. Only the GTX 1080 is in low graphics mode (expected because nouveau doesn't yet support it)

This should be good to go. It's already a confirmed improvement for first boot, and I'll test again to confirm that the new kernel enables the graphical installer once it hits the daily iso.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-31.50

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linux (4.4.0-31.50) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1602449

  * nouveau: boot hangs at blank screen with unsupported graphics cards
    (LP: #1602340)
    - SAUCE: drm: check for supported chipset before booting fbdev off the hw

linux (4.4.0-30.49) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1597897

  * FCP devices are not detected correctly nor deterministically (LP: #1567602)
    - scsi_dh_alua: Disable ALUA handling for non-disk devices
    - scsi_dh_alua: Use vpd_pg83 information
    - scsi_dh_alua: improved logging
    - scsi_dh_alua: sanitze sense code handling
    - scsi_dh_alua: use standard logging functions
    - scsi_dh_alua: return standard SCSI return codes in submit_rtpg
    - scsi_dh_alua: fixup description of stpg_endio()
    - scsi_dh_alua: use flag for RTPG extended header
    - scsi_dh_alua: use unaligned access macros
    - scsi_dh_alua: rework alua_check_tpgs() to return the tpgs mode
    - scsi_dh_alua: simplify sense code handling
    - scsi: Add scsi_vpd_lun_id()
    - scsi: Add scsi_vpd_tpg_id()
    - scsi_dh_alua: use scsi_vpd_tpg_id()
    - scsi_dh_alua: Remove stale variables
    - scsi_dh_alua: Pass buffer as function argument
    - scsi_dh_alua: separate out alua_stpg()
    - scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous
    - scsi_dh_alua: call alua_rtpg() if stpg fails
    - scsi_dh_alua: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()
    - scsi_dh_alua: allocate RTPG buffer separately
    - scsi_dh_alua: Use separate alua_port_group structure
    - scsi_dh_alua: use unique device id
    - scsi_dh_alua: simplify alua_initialize()
    - revert commit a8e5a2d593cb ("[SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: ALUA handler attach should
      succeed while TPG is transitioning")
    - scsi_dh_alua: move optimize_stpg evaluation
    - scsi_dh_alua: remove 'rel_port' from alua_dh_data structure
    - scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG
    - scsi_dh_alua: Allow workqueue to run synchronously
    - scsi_dh_alua: Add new blacklist flag 'BLIST_SYNC_ALUA'
    - scsi_dh_alua: Recheck state on unit attention
    - scsi_dh_alua: update all port states
    - scsi_dh_alua: Send TEST UNIT READY to poll for transitioning
    - scsi_dh_alua: do not fail for unknown VPD identification

linux (4.4.0-29.48) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1597015

  * Wireless hotkey fails on Dell XPS 15 9550 (LP: #1589886)
    - intel-hid: new hid event driver for hotkeys
    - intel-hid: fix incorrect entries in intel_hid_keymap
    - intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private struct
    - intel-hid: add a workaround to ignore an event after waking up from S4.
    - [Config] CONFIG_INTEL_HID_EVENT=m

  * cgroupfs mounts can hang (LP: #1588056)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) mqueue: Super blocks must be owned by the
      user ns which owns the ipc ns"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: kernfs: Do not match superblock in another user
      namespace when mounting"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cgroup: Use a new super block when mounting in a
      cgroup namespace"
    - (name...