From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: On the following system: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard Leadtek GeForce 6600GT 128MB video (PCI Express) Athlon 64 3500+ X is unusable out of the box, the display shows only garbage (random pixels). The nv driver built into Xorg doesn't recognize this card, so the VESA driver gets used. However, it just displays garbage, both in the installer and in X after installation. I had to use text-mode install. The NVIDIA binary driver works better, but has some other problems (the mouse cursor is invisible, and the console text gets messed up when you leave X). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run installer on system with hardware similar to above Actual Results: X display consists entirely of gibberish Expected Results: X display works properly Additional info:
Created attachment 109211 [details] Xorg log file from X startup using VESA driver This is the X server output on a startup which resulted in only garbage being displayed
Created attachment 109212 [details] Full dmesg output from system bootup
Michael Yaroslavtsev traced this problem to a problem with handling of 64-bit BARs in the xorg X server code. A patch to resolve this problem is linked to on this xorg bug entry: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2322 I tested the "minimal" patch there and both the NVIDIA driver and the VESA driver appear to work fine. Could we get this patch into Fedora?
Taking bug ownership of this one.
Bug #140601 is similar in nature, and probably the same issue.
I've added the "simple" fix from the above freedesktop bug report to our CVS 'devel' branch. It will be in future builds. Once rpms are available for testing, I'll update the status of this report.
xorg-x11-6.8.1.904-1 is currently in rawhide with an updated "nv" driver. Please update to the rawhide xorg-x11 and configure your xorg.conf to use the 'nv' driver, and provide status report back wether it works or not. Note: If you have nvidia's proprietary driver installed, you will need to disable it, and reboot your kernel, ensuring the proprietary kernel modules do not get loaded first. Thanks in advance.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting report back of results of testing with xorg-x11 from rawhide.
Confirmed that both the nv and nvidia drivers are now working with the 6.8.1.904-1 release.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-198.html