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Description of problem: Using nouveau from the nouveau test day live cd causes a kernel panic. No graphics after rebooting into Fedora 13 from the hard disk with nvidia binary driver. Unstable graphics (no boot screen/corrupt boot screen/no graphics period on three different reboots in a row) with the nouveau driver in Fedora 13. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): From live cd found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day%3A2011-02-22_Nouveau How reproducible: Run livecd, boots into gnome-fallback. Let it sit for a while and the kernel panics. Additional info: Grabbed from /var/log/messages when the nvidia driver died: Feb 23 19:54:42 dan-thinkpad kernel: vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size. Feb 23 19:54:42 dan-thinkpad kernel: NVRM: failed to map registers!! Feb 23 19:54:42 dan-thinkpad kernel: NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x10:0x32:1312) Feb 23 19:54:42 dan-thinkpad kernel: NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
Oops, forgot the ever-important hardware description. Lenovo thinkpad t410 with nvidia nvs quadro 3100.
I don't see how the vmalloc failure of the NVIDIA binary driver can possibly be related. You're running a 32-bit kernel, and NVIDIA GPUs have *massive* amounts of register space. With a lot of devices, the kernel will quickly run out of places to map them. The corrupt graphics with nouveau on reboot are more than likely the older version of nouveau not being able to deal with some residual state the new version sets up, that a warm reset does not fix. Anyhow, are you able to capture some information on the kernel panic you're seeing, as well as dmesg output and /var/log/Xorg.0.log before it panics.
For the OS on my hard drive (Fedora 13): I've got the nvidia binary working again, but only for one kernel on my system. It fails for one, and isn't available for the other. Nouveau doesn't work on any right now. When I boot nouveau, it never boots it graphical. Although it changes the resolution and does display the pretty shutdown screen (not the pretty boot one though). For Fedora 15 test day live cd: Seems to work for a while but intermittently locks up. I haven't seen the kernel panic since the first time, but every time it boots I get 'BIT loadval' errors, like Bug 630765. I've attached the output of /var/log/messages, dmesg, and Xorg.0.log. I also managed to get both rendercheck to run and test xv one time (it worked), so I have that as well.
Created attachment 481505 [details] output of /var/log/messages
Created attachment 481506 [details] output of dmesg
Created attachment 481508 [details] xorg log
Created attachment 481509 [details] output of rendercheck test
Just tried out the Fedora 15 Alpha 64-bit live cd. No crashes yet, but same error. I attached the new boot log. Also, I've been getting some graphical glitches occasionally. A few examples: parts of text missing, like someone dragged the eraser through the middle of a line of text and also the gnome login window having different blocks of dark gradient over its normally light background.
Created attachment 486428 [details] Fedora 15 Alpha Boot Log
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