Description of problem: In the past, I've kept my video memory at 64M (it's shared memory). This worked perfectly in FC-6. Somewhere along the line in FC-6 updates, IIRC, I started getting video corruption. This was in the form of small blue pixelated squares near the top of the screen. At the time, I mistakenly assumed it was related to hardware failure. Recently, I changed the video memory and video aperture from 64M to 128M. Now the problem has gone away. I guess it's possible that the newer driver versions will not work with 64M, but I'd rather have an error than a corrupted display ;) If you need a screen capture of the corruption, I can switch back to 64M and get you one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5-2.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. change AGP video memory and and memory aperture in BIOS from 128M -> 64M 2. 3. Actual results: video display corruption Expected results: to still work with only 64M Additional info:
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. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 264061 [details] xorg.conf that I'm currently using
Created attachment 264071 [details] log file when video memory/aperture is set to 64M and no xorg.conf exists
Created attachment 264081 [details] log file when video memory/aperture is set to 64M and xorg.conf exists (as included)
Created attachment 264091 [details] log file when video memory/aperture is set to 128M and xorg.conf exists (as included)
Please let me know if you need any addition data.
Two more pieces of information: 1) Changing AGP Aperture size either alone or in conjunction with video memory size seems to have no effect. This seems to be wholly dependent on video memory size. 2) rhgb does not exhibit this video corruption.
I've been running with 128MB allocated since I posted this bug. I have noticed that occasionally (although very rarely) I even get this video corruption when I have 128MB.
Maybe my video card became flakey at the same time I updated to F7+ ?
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