Bug#616604: xserver-xorg: [grave]X does not working for nvidia 3100M / Dell latitude e6510
On 2011-03-05 23:58 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@gmail.com> (05/03/2011):
>> Package: xserver-xorg
>> Version: 1:7.5+8
>> Severity: normal
>
>> While installing a new debian stable squeezy on brand new dell
>> latitude E6510 which has nvidia 3100, the xserver is broken and not
>> working. As soon as system boots, after grub, the screen becomes
>> blank and you can only see "_ _ _ _ " passing by. Trying to switch
>> to different terminal does not display anything. ctrl + alt +F4.
>
> I guess that installing the system worked fine, so fbdev was doing the
> job. And the initial issue only happened on the first boot of the
> freshly-installed system, using the nouveau driver, correct?
>
> What followed (installing nvidia to actually use vesa) is a bit
> confusing, I'm putting Sven (maintainer of the nouveau — not nvidia —
> driver) in copy since he might know better what failed after the
> installation.
My knowledge is rather limited, but from the "Macintosh mouse button
emulation" lines in the original bug report I conclude that Lukasz has
an Intel Mac. There have been some upstream bug reports that Nouveau
has trouble initializing the GPU on such machines, especially if BIOS
emulation is disabled. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/29171 for such
an example.
Note that Lukasz' graphics card (nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]
(rev a2)) also suffers from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/26980, so
sticking to nv (or nvidia) is probably his best option for now.
It seems this bug should be reassigned to the kernel.
Regards,
Sven
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