On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 12:47 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 02:52 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: > > > > > > because we don't want to spend our time maintaining a large database of > > > > what cards to use kms for and what cards not to? > > > > > > > > why aren't you optimistic, anyway? nouveau bugs are generally fixed > > > > quite rapidly. > > > > > > > > > > > This particular chipset is not well supported. In fact, the last time I > > > looked, nobody, including nvidia, seemed to be supporting it. Way back > > > when we did the nouveau test day, it was accepted that modeset would not > > > work with this chip. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the driver > > > in kernel 48 can recover from whatever problem it has but messages like > > > "expect strangeness" and "GPU stuck", don't sit well with me. see > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525905 for current status. > > > P.S. I do want to thank you and Ben for taking this problem seriously. > > > > ah, I see. If it's a known issue that it will be hard to make > > modesetting work on this chip, Ben may want to implement an exception in > > the driver to always disable modesetting for this chip, I suppose. > > However, I believe the long-term plan for nouveau, as for other drivers, > > is to _only_ use kernel modesetting, no more X driver modesetting code > > available, so that won't be practical in the long term. Ben, do you have > > a plan here? > The modesetting isn't an issue it seems, as the report says that a mode > actually does get set. There's several bug reports of NV4E (the chipset > the card reports itself as having) chips not functioning correctly for > whatever reason. > > Unfortunately I have no access to an effected chipset to investigate > what's going wrong exactly, it's very difficult to fix such bugs. shmuel seems to be suggesting that it works with nomodeset, though. james, is there a way we could check if any system at Red Hat has the affected hardware? maybe we could ship it to Ben or something. it seems to be quite common: http://www.smolts.org/reports/view_device/C51G%20%5BGeForce%206100%5D so this is probably a bug we'd like to fix... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
