Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jun 30, 2015, at 3:48 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:

> I’ll definitely report on how things work on my hardware with your kernel, but it will have to wait til after the weekend.  4th of July == US Independence Day == lots of neighborhood/family/etc parties and celebrations == no time for playing with computers.  
> 
> I’m looking forward to sending a report soon!
> Rick

Hi Peter,

I installed your 3.18… kernel.  I get a black screen.

Here’s what “journalctl -b | grep -C5 nouveau ” says.  I hope it help.  Note the error from nouveau about “Invalid ROM contents”.  Is that expected?

Thanks!
Rick


Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.103
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: checking generic (98020000 20d000) vs hw (98000000 8000000)
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,Displ
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Mounted Debug File System.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x043200a4
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Chipset: NV43 (NV43)
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Family : NV40
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Started Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking OpenFirmware for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... checksum invalid
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... signature not found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking PROM for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Started Increase datagram queue length.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Starting Syslog Socket.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... signature not found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking ACPI for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... signature not found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking PCIROM for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... signature not found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] checking PLATFORM for image...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] ... signature not found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] using image from OpenFirmware
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] BIT signature found
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] version 05.43.02.75.00
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     PFB][0000:0b:00.0] RAM type: DDR1
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     PFB][0000:0b:00.0] RAM size: 128 MiB
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     PFB][0000:0b:00.0]    ZCOMP: 378880 tags
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: windfarm: CPUs control loops started.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-journal[181]: Journal started
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
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Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Failed to find module 'ppdev'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Failed to find module 'parport_pc'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Inserted module 'loop'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Failed to find module 'snd-powermac'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Inserted module 'i2c_powermac'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:0b:00.0] FAN control: toggle
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:0b:00.0] internal sensor: no
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     CLK][0000:0b:00.0] 20: core 300 MHz shader 300 MHz memory 400 MHz
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     CLK][0000:0b:00.0] --: core 300 MHz shader 300 MHz memory 400 MHz
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: Using 32-bit DMA via iommu
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 3521260 kiB
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 124 MiB
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 512 MiB
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] TMDS table version 1.1
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 3.0
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000100 00000028
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 03000102 00000000
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011210 00000028
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 03: 02111212 02000100
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 04: 02011211 0020c070
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 00: 1030
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 01: 2130
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     I2C][0000:0b:00.0] detected TMDS transmitter: sil164
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: sil164 7-0038: Detected device 1:6.0
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] 0x14DA: Parsing digital output script table
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-udevd[183]: starting version 220
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Set preliminary keymap...
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] Setting dpms mode 3 on TV encoder (output 4)
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1680x1050 fb: 0x9000, bo c000000233468400
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd-modules-load[179]: Inserted module 'nouveau'
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 210x65
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.2.1 20120801 for 0000:0b:00.0 on minor 0
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 08 02:23:03 bigal systemd[1]: Mounted Configuration File System.