Bug 753847 - nouveau kernel module no longer recognizes nVidia G73 card
Summary: nouveau kernel module no longer recognizes nVidia G73 card
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-14 16:57 UTC by Thomas Sailer
Modified: 2011-11-15 11:45 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-11-15 11:33:16 UTC
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lspci output of the vga card (2.07 KB, text/plain)
2011-11-14 17:00 UTC, Thomas Sailer
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Description Thomas Sailer 2011-11-14 16:57:21 UTC
Description of problem:
The nouveau kernel module no longer recognizes a GeForce 7300GT card. When modprobing nouveau, the driver is loaded but is silent (no dmesg output). No /dev/dri/card0 or /dev/dri/controlD64 device node is created.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rmmod nouveau
2.modprobe nouveau

  
Actual results:
nothing happens

Expected results:
some dmesg output, device nodes /dev/dri/card0 and /dev/dri/controlD64 created


Additional info:
It used to work throughout several fedora releases, including 14 and 15.

On the bright side, nv recognizes the card and drives the LC panel using its native resolution (1600x1200). This never worked so far, nv always chose a smaller resolution.

Comment 1 Thomas Sailer 2011-11-14 17:00:46 UTC
Created attachment 533570 [details]
lspci output of the vga card

Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2011-11-15 02:15:21 UTC
Can I see your dmesg output please.

Comment 3 Thomas Sailer 2011-11-15 11:33:00 UTC
It turned out that the problem was the nomodeset kernel parameter. I added it in the fedora14 timeframe (because it wouldn't work otherwise). Removing it now makes nouveau work as expected.

Comment 4 Ben Skeggs 2011-11-15 11:45:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> It turned out that the problem was the nomodeset kernel parameter. I added it
> in the fedora14 timeframe (because it wouldn't work otherwise). Removing it now
> makes nouveau work as expected.

Ah, that's pretty much what I was expecting  Glad to hear that nouveau works properly now without it :)

Thanks!


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