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Bug#690586: installation-reports: NVIDIA GF108 [Quadro 1000M] 10de:0dfa (rev a1) X fails with nouveau/linux-3.2



Am 19.11.2012 um 21:38 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt:

> Hi Sven,
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:59:12PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Am 15.10.2012 um 22:42 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt:
>>
>> > Package: installation-reports
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > the wheezy default kernel 3.2 does not provide an appropriate nouveau
>> > driver to start X on this machine.
>>
>> It is certainly supposed to do that, however.  How exactly does it fail?
>
> Perhaps I should be more accurate.
>
> The machine freezes when booting and I have to power off (Sys-Rq and
> other key combinations do not help). The last line shown on the screen
> (with "quiet" removed from the kernel boot stanza) differs. If it
> helps I can run a series and report the final lines.  However, I am
> able to boot with "nomodeset" added to the boot parameters.

Well, the problem is indeed in the graphics driver then, since
"nomodeset" effectively disables it.  Does it work with
nouveau.noaccel=1 instead of nomodeset?

> I attached the output when started with "nomodeset" as kernel boot
> parameter. The screen resolution is pretty bad (1024x768) compared to
> the resolution when running kernel 3.5.

Yes, because you then get to use the vesa driver for X which does not
support modern wide screens.

> Please let me know if you need any other information, I am happy to
> provide what's needed.

Do you have another computer where you can capture kernel messages via
netconsole?  A short HOWTO for netconsole is on
http://blog.mraw.org/2010/11/08/Debugging_using_netconsole, also see
Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt in the kernel source.

Cheers,
       Sven


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