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Bug#689748: More info, with nouveau.modeset=0 display stays dark permanently, also kernel 3.7



On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:38:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2013-02-26 08:13 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:07:48 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> Have you tried booting with nouveau.noaccel=1 yet?  That seems to be the
> >> only way to obtain stability on N4VE.
> >> 
> > Sounds like we should make that the default in the kernel then?
> 
> I think there's insufficient data for that.  At least some people seem to
> actually be successfully running even the 3D driver on NV4E:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810490#c11
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557#c30
> 
> Other known problems on NV4E are disappearing mouse cursor (#635228, I
> don't know if disabling acceleration even helps) and screen distortion
> on machines with more than 2G RAM and a 64-bit kernel (#608133), can be
> worked around with mem=2G.
> 
> AFAIK there are also no other distributions who have ever disabled
> acceleration on NV4E by default.  I'm not sure we should set a precedent
> here.
> 
Fair enough.

Cheers,
Julien

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