Bug#828183: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: 8bit colours with severly shrunken screen, no hw accel (GeForce 6800 Ultra on Jessie)

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Control: reassign -1 xserver-xorg-video-fbdev

On 2016-06-25 13:49 -0700, macthetux wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:1.0.11-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm attaching my xorg.conf which managed to get video as opposed to none at all
> and GPU lockup when just using nouveau driver.
>
> The xorg.conf I use uses nouveaufb and fbdev in unison, but I only get a
> shurnken screen (1/6th the real estate of my display, the rest my display is
> black), 8bit colours, and no hardware acceleration.

I don't know why you are reporting this against
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau when your xorg.conf forces the fbdev driver.
BTW most settings in it make no sense at all, for instance there is no
nouveaufb X module:

> [    24.566] (II) LoadModule: "nouveaufb"
> [    24.616] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveaufb

Cheers,
       Sven