Re: Monitor detection failure and video display

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-10-07 21:58 +0200, James Zuelow wrote:

> Some additional info.
>
> I tried this:
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nouveau"
>     Option         "IgnoreEDID" "true"

This option will be ignored, I think.  At least I could not find it in
the nouveau source code.

> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80e7aab]
> 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x610e5) [0x80a90e5]
> 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb778f40c]
> 3: /usr/bin/X (InitOutput+0xc80) [0x80b8e80]
> 4: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e79b) [0x806679b]
> 5: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb74d0c76]
> 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e541) [0x8066541]
> Segmentation fault at address 0x18
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

The segfault should be fixed in the experimental version of
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, as per [1].  I'm not sure if X will actually
work, though.

Sven


1. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/commit/?id=4b8f1a082069a17555d4142003213cf83d4e5464