On 09-02-2013 23:59, Whiskers wrote: > 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 > It seems you are using late KMS, try adding nouveau to the MODULES array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and see if you still have problems. I've had a problem similar to this quite a long time ago when kms stated to be supported by the radeon driver, adding the module to the initramfs solved the problem reliably. > 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? > -- Mauro Santos
