Bug#608846: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: bad graphics on GeForce2 MX/MX 400 on powerpc (falls back to fbdev)

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-01-04 09:33 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On 01/04/2011 03:05 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2011-01-04 00:50 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>> I also tried (using no xorg.conf) with linux-image-2.6.37-rc7-powerpc as the kernel, and with the xorg and drm
>>> components from experimental (including building xserver-xorg-video-nouveau from the debian-experimental branch
>>> from git). 
>> 
>> In that case, please file a bug upstream at
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg.  Choose
>> Driver/nouveau as Component, and let us know the bug number.
>
> I don't think that the debian-experimental branch (which i built from to
> ensure consistency (and uninstallability) with debian has merged
> upstream's latest changes, and upstream seems quite insistent that
> upstream debugging should be done against their most bleeding edge git
> repo. :(

It's only a few commits behind, for the very latest you need to build
libdrm from git first.  It can't hurt to report anyway.

>>> DRM Information from dmesg:
>>> [    2.201365] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
>>> [    2.201454] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: Apple UniNorth 1.5 chipset
>>> [    2.203192] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: configuring for size idx: 64
>>> [    2.203355] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
>>> [  338.573775] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>> 
>> This looks suspicious to me, why are there no nouveau messages here?
>
> This is probably because i only managed to file this bug after reverting
> all the changes and rebooting into a clean (fbdev) X.org session.

The nouveau kernel module should be loaded and log its messages long
before X starts.

Regards,
        Sven