Bug 492251 - Display messed up
Summary: Display messed up
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 12
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: card_NV67
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-26 05:10 UTC by Juan Pablo Giménez
Modified: 2018-04-11 10:01 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1195404 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:58:41 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg log (46.67 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-26 05:10 UTC, Juan Pablo Giménez
no flags Details
booting in runlevel 3 with nouveau.modeset=1 drm.debug=15 (95.88 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-10-12 15:32 UTC, Juan Pablo Giménez
no flags Details
messages file for runlevel 3 nouveau.modeset=1 drm.debug=15 (58.95 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-10-12 15:37 UTC, Juan Pablo Giménez
no flags Details

Description Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-03-26 05:10:57 UTC
Created attachment 336753 [details]
Xorg log

Description of problem:

I see only an small part of the gdm login screen, there are black lines interlaced and the image repeated three times horizontally...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rawhide fully updated
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-10.20090310git8f9a580.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot
2. gdm will be messed up...
  
Actual results:
Display is useless

Expected results:
1280x800 resolution

Additional info:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M (rev a2)

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2009-03-27 20:34:04 UTC
Does it seem to be actually functioning - i.e. can you log in if you work 'blind'? Do you see a mouse pointer moving around if you move your mouse?

What happens if you try the KMS test? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_nouveau_kms

Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2009-04-09 05:05:11 UTC
Any update here?  Also, it'll be worth updating to the latest packages and seeing if this is fixed, there's been a number of changes to pre-G80 modesetting since the version you tested.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2009-04-17 18:34:27 UTC
if you were using the test day live CD, btw, you could test with F11 Beta or Snapshot to get a more up-to-date look.

Comment 4 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-06-01 18:42:25 UTC
Update,
  Only works on 4x3 resolutions, 800x600, 1024x768... not widescreen, 1280x800

Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2009-06-01 20:03:15 UTC
Can you please confirm exactly what Fedora 11 image you're testing with for comment #4?

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-01 21:59:31 UTC
Looks interesting

bradford:~$ checkXorgLog 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=336753'
(WW) NOUVEAU(0): TMDS table script pointers not stubbed
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): ========== misaligned reg 0x001020FB ==========
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): ========== misaligned reg 0x001020FB ==========
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): ========== unknown reg 0x0077FFF4 ==========
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): ========== unknown reg 0x0077FFF8 ==========
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): ========== unknown reg 0x0077FFFC ==========
(WW) NOUVEAU(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
[...]
bradford:~$

Comment 7 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-06-02 12:35:26 UTC
Rawhide, fully updated, kernel 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 tested with and without nouveau.modeset...

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:38:45 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 9 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-10-12 07:09:13 UTC
* Testing first with F12 snap2, still failing
* Rawhide fully updated, failing
* Tested with a dualhead setup... works on the external monitor! a 20" samsung LCD panel

Digging into the problem I found than KMS (or xorg nouveau driver) is setting a 1280x800x60.0, but LVDS-0 only works fine on 50.0... nvidia proprietary drivers on f11 report this,

[jpg@lisa ~]$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       50.0* 
 
Can I set KMS mode? something like with the vga=... kernel parameter...
Can I disable modeset (nouveau.modeset) and instruct X to use the proper modeset?

thanks...

Comment 10 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-10-12 07:13:36 UTC
BTW, my screen looks exactly like the screenshoots uploaded here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408421

Comment 11 Ben Skeggs 2009-10-12 07:36:27 UTC
I'm going to need to see new logs.  What would be useful is if you could boot with "drm.debug=15 3", then run "dmesg > dmesg.log" and upload the dmesg.log here.

Also worth attaching /var/log/messages too, as the debugging will overflow the dmesg buffer and miss the start of the init process.

Comment 12 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-10-12 15:32:05 UTC
Created attachment 364480 [details]
booting in runlevel 3 with nouveau.modeset=1 drm.debug=15

Comment 13 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-10-12 15:37:29 UTC
Created attachment 364484 [details]
messages file for runlevel 3 nouveau.modeset=1 drm.debug=15

Comment 14 Adam Williamson 2009-10-13 20:04:33 UTC
you can't trust refresh rates reported by the NVIDIA driver, in all cases; in some situations it futzes with them to use them as a storage variable for its MetaModes thing (yes, this is incredibly janky). See:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-g.html

"will look identical to the XRandR or XF86VidMode X extensions, because they have the same total size (3200x1200), and nvidia-settings would not be able to use XRandR to switch between these MetaModes. To work around this limitation, the NVIDIA X driver "lies" about the refresh rate of each MetaMode, using the refresh rate of the MetaMode as a unique identifier."

That may be what you're seeing, here.

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Comment 15 Trever Adams 2009-10-15 23:54:17 UTC
I am experiencing similar problems as reporter of bug #408421. I should mention that this problem still exists for me in rawhide.

Comment 16 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 18:23:38 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 17 Juan Pablo Giménez 2009-11-27 16:48:44 UTC
Still present on F12 final release...

Comment 18 Trever Adams 2010-03-26 19:30:03 UTC
This problem still exists in the 13 Alpha install. I will be trying it with the updates to 13 since the Alpha release. Would the owner mind marking this as Release: 13 instead of 11?

Comment 19 Adam Williamson 2010-03-26 19:41:24 UTC
we can set it to 12, at least, as Juan has said that. Trever, do you have the same hardware as Juan?



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Comment 20 Trever Adams 2010-03-27 08:04:54 UTC
Yes, at least the graphics chip. In F13 (current as of March 16, 2010), nouveau doesn't start, it tries repeatedly and fails. That at least means people won't try it to see crazy garbage. In the Alpha disc, it does the exact same thing as before, corrupted display.

Comment 21 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:25:08 UTC
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Comment 22 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:58:41 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 23 adlo 2015-02-23 16:04:10 UTC
This problem still exists in Fedora 21.


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