RE: Monitor detection failure and video display

[James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us>]

----Original Message----
From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenjoac@gmx.de]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:40 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Monitor detection failure and video display

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

I took it out today as it wasn't the direction I needed to go.  But good to know, thanks!

>> Backtrace:
>> 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80e7aab]
--------8<---snip---8<--------
>> 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
> 

When I set the "video=VGA-1:e" kernel option, I don't get the segfault and X works.

So that's a workaround if this fix doesn't make it to Squeeze.

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

Thanks Sven!

James Z