Bug 679626

Summary: Stray textmode characters when restarting X.org using Nouveau X.org driver...
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sebastian Rasmussen 2011-02-23 02:29:52 UTC
Description of problem:

I attended Nouveau Testing Day (see additional info below) and saw some stray textmode characters when restarting the X.org server. When re-starting X.org I noticed a box of random characters mostly with orange background color in the upper left corner. They seemed to be confined to a 80x25 character box.

I'm happy to assist with further testing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau 0.0.16-19.20110216git42c16ff.fc15

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Fedora in console mode as described
2. Start X.org
3. Log out from X.org
4. Observe the stray colored characters in upper lefter corner of textmode screen
  
Actual results:
Stray textmode characters.

Expected results:
No stray characters at all.

Additional info:

The following livecdimage was used:
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gfx_test_week_201102/gfx_test_week_20110221_x86-64.iso
SHA256SUM: e59d1886f7b766011b89d88369d09a4dd46bd7ba8a25664e9de0430d0f8725d7

X.Org restart instructions:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_nouveau_restartx

Smolt:
http://smolts.org/client/show/pub_6833947c-d3ee-4790-ab43-fc7431c36dd9

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-07 22:58:06 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

You can try with the latest DVD from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

But after full start of Xorg, these characters vanished and everything went smoothly since then? Just trying to understand the severity of the issue.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 2 Sebastian Rasmussen 2011-03-14 01:43:15 UTC
Sorry for the delay, I've been caught up in work in the real world. :-/
I've bought a USB stick to use for testing though so I hope to retest this and return to you with answers during the coming week.

 / Sebastian

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