Description of problem: The nouveau xorg driver doesn't work with the current Fedora 10 updates kernel, kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686. When GDM should be started, the screen flickers a while before giving up and then you can only log in using a text console. With previous kernels such as 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 the nouveau driver works fine. I'm using an nVidia 6600GT graphics card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.11-1.20081119git65b956f.fc10.i386 Here's a part of the messages log which should be relevant to this issue: kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 kernel: [drm] Detected an NV40 generation card (0x043000a4) kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.11 20060213 on minor 0 kernel: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size. kernel: [drm:nouveau_init_card_mappings] *ERROR* Unable to initialize the mmio mapping (-12). Please report your setup to dri-devel.net
I just noticed that I'm getting similar log messages even with the older kernel, but nouveau still works. Here's a part of the dmesg output from 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 pci 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [drm] Detected an NV40 generation card (0x043000a4) [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.11 20060213 on minor 0 allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size. [drm:nouveau_init_card_mappings] *ERROR* Unable to initialize the mmio mapping (-12). Please report your setup to dri-devel.net [drm] Allocating FIFO number 0 [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 0 [drm] Allocating FIFO number 1 [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
Can you post (as separate attachments): Complete boot messages for both kernels. Output of 'lspci -v' run on both old and new kernel.
Created attachment 330542 [details] dmesg for the older, working kernel
Created attachment 330543 [details] dmesg for the newer kernel, with which nouveau doesn't work
Created attachment 330544 [details] lspci -v for the older, working kernel
I forgot to save the lspci -v output for the newer kernel when I booted it, I'll post that later. Thanks for taking an interest in this bug.
There are no differences between the lspci -v output between the older and the newer kernels, so I don't think it's worth attaching yet another file to this report.
This was fixed by installing xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.11-1.20090106git133c1a5.fc10, which is currently in updates-testing
This might sound quite weird, but it's not fixed after all. It worked once, so maybe it needs a boot with the older kernel first and then a "soft" reboot to the new kernel to make it work. If the computer has been shut down and I boot the new kernel directly, it won't work. Thus, reopening.
I installed the proprietary nVidia driver, it works but there are some kind of artifacts on the screen sometimes. There might actually be a hardware problem with the video card. I'm closing this bug (again...) until I figure out whether it's a hardware or a driver problem.