On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:20:47 -0600 Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:07:56 +0000 >Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:25:45 +0100 Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >Am 22.01.2013 18:34, schrieb Whiskers: [...] >> I'm using the Nouveau video driver with an old laptop. As >> Linux-3.6.11-1 seems to be stable for me, I'll wait for the next kernel >> version to reach the core repository. > >If you're talking about 3.7.4, then it's unlikely to fix your issue, >because there are only radeon fixes in the changelog >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.7.4. > >> >> I'll also try to work out how to have the previous kernel still >> available to Grub-legacy after the next kernel upgrade. >> >> For the record, this is what my video hardware says it is: >> >> $ lspci | grep VGA >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX >> Go5600] (rev a1) I'm now up to Linux 3.7.6-1, and still the video card is going blank when booting. It happens reliably whenever I boot with a kernel later than linux-3.6.11-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz and happens at the point in the boot sequence where the print on the screen shrinks to a small size - I think that's when the 'frame buffer' is started. I can log in 'blind' and issue console commands (eg shutdown -r now) but startx does nothing. If I edit the 3.7.* boot entry in Grub-legacy to include nomodeset then I do get to a visible login prompt, but of course no X. For now, I'm booting into linux-lts-3.0.60-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz which works fine, but may not be a long-term solution. I don't know enough to interpret all the log entries, but I have found that when booting from a kernel that successfully starts the graphics, /var/log/kernel.log has a line such as this: Feb 9 18:29:00 tavy kernel: [ 18.124619] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 whereas using a kernel that doesn't get the graphics working, the corresponding log entry is like this: Feb 9 18:23:33 tavy kernel: [ 16.068483] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.0 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 Both entries are confusing, given that the current nouveau packages installed are nouveau-dri 9.0.2-1 and xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.6-1. Would I be right in guessing that xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.6-1 can handle the kernel initialising nouveau 0.0.16 but not 1.1.0? -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
