Bug 638174

Description of problem:
So I tried the Fedora 14 Nouveau Test Day live images today on my Dell D630 laptop with: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M [10de:042b] (rev a1)

(1) First I ran it with both of my screens attached. I was greeted with the blue Fedora logo boot screen on both displays. After the Fedora logo "filled up", the screen went blank and soon presented me with a corrupted image on my 1st (Laptop) screen (image attached). The second screen was entirely blank at this point.

So I proceeded with Shift+Ctrl+Alt+F2 to the VT and was presented with a screen split in two, with two simultaneously blinking cursors (image attached). It's not visible on the picture, but the cursor is "striped" vertically, looks something like: |||||||||||
However this VT was not functional; typing anything does not have any effect. Ctrl+Alt+F1 brought me back to the corrupted screen and I could switch back and forth.

By pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del in the VT, I managed to reboot the system -- the blue Fedora "Restarting..." screen did not appear, just continued with two blinking cursors until the BIOS screen.

Since I did not get a working display, I was unable to capture dmesg or Xorg log files.

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(2) So I unplugged the second screen and tried my luck again. After the blue Fedora loading screen, I was presented with a text mode screen with some messages in the middle. It blinked a few times and then reimained stable:

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 180x56
fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
drm: registered panic notifier
Slow work thread pool: Starting up
Slow work thread pool: Ready
[drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
modprobe used greatest stack depth: 4160 bytes left
dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
composite sync not supported
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

So in short, Xorg did not start. Xorg.0.log from this boot is attached, as well as dmesg.out.

On VT2 I could successfully log in as root and execute commands. I also tried manually launching "xinit" to no avail.

When shutting down, the blue Fedora boot screen worked this time.

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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 14 Test Day live image.

How reproducible:
Happens every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write the Fedora 14 Test Day live image onto a USB key
2. Boot off the USB key
3. Wait.

Additional info:

As my main OS, I'm currently using Nouveau with Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.35.6,
nouveau-dri 7.8.2, xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16_git20100517. This works with both
of my displays.

xrandr output shows:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2520 x 1920, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS-1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 303mm x 189mm
   1440x900       60.0*+
   1152x864       60.0  
   1024x768       59.9  
   800x600        59.9  
   640x480        59.4  
   720x400        59.6  
   640x400        60.0  
   640x350        59.8  
VGA-1 connected 1080x1920+1440+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1680x1050      60.0  
   1400x1050      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1440x900       59.9  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)