On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:38:01PM +0200, Marcel Oliver wrote: > Hi, > > I am having worsening problems with the nouveau driver on GeForce 6150 > (NV4E), this is the onboard graphics on the ASUS M2NPV-VM. So I tried > F17 Beta (x86) yesterday to see what the status is. Result: total > failure - the screen goes to a very dark blue and the keyboard appears > also dead. > > This same problem already shows up on F16 with any of the 3.3 kernels > (last working kernel is 3.2.10-3 without acceleration, acceleration > never worked on this chip), see > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810490 > > Question: > > - Should I file another bug report on F17 beta? Can you just add the serial/dmesg output with drm.info=255 to the bug? > > - If so, what are the chances that someone looks at it? > > - Is there any easy way to extract the requested debug information > from the system in the failing configuration? Ideally, I'd like to > write out to USB stick without installing the system, but since no > user interaction is possible, that seems too much to ask? > Alternatively, if I install on a scratch partition, is there a way > to instrument the startup code to write the necessary debug > information to disk for later inspection from a working system? > Networking would be a bit of a pain to bring up... You could boot in text mode (so recovery) with 'nouveau.modeset=0'. Set up your network, SSH in the box, and then 'exec /sbin/init 5' to start X. Then from your SSH session run 'dmesg' to get that output. Oh, you should also have 'debug loglevel=8' on your Linux command line. > > Any comments appreciated, also an estimate of the chances of being > able to use Fedora on this machine again... > > Regards, > Marcel > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
