Nouveau - Oct 2008 - [Bug 18300] New: NV11 Locks Up On Xorg Initialization

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18300

           Summary: NV11 Locks Up On Xorg Initialization
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: megatog615 at gmail.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


On my laptop(a Dell Inspiron 2650), running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Xorg
locks up the entire system when I use the nouveau drivers. I have followed the
UbuntuPackages guide with no compilation errors for drm-modules. The screen
turns black when Xorg starts and stays that way. Keyboard and mouse are
unresponsive and I cannot even SSH into the laptop. I assume the laptop has
locked up and is completely unresponsive at this point.

I have attached kern.log, syslog, Xorg.0.log, and lspci output.


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--- Comment #1 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-29
23:54:16 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=19948)
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kern.log


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--- Comment #2 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-29
23:54:45 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=19949)
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lspci


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--- Comment #3 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-29
23:55:01 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=19950)
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--- Comment #4 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-29
23:55:19 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=19951)
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Xorg.0.log


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--- Comment #5 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
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Created an attachment (id=19953)
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--- Comment #6 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
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Created an attachment (id=19954)
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--- Comment #7 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
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Created an attachment (id=19955)
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syslog

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--- Comment #8 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
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--- Comment #9 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
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--- Comment #10 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2008-10-30
02:11:30 PST ---
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--- Comment #11 from Stuart Bennett <sb476 at cam.ac.uk>  2009-01-13
15:56:02 PST ---
(--) NOUVEAU(0): VideoRAM: 8192 kBytes

and

(EE) EXA(0): ExaDriverRec::offScreenBase must be <= ExaDriverRec::memorySize

are the critical things here.  You seem to only have 8Mb VRAM, which really
isn't very much (the driver at present tends to assume more, probably a
minimum
of 16Mb).  Do you know if we are detecting the correct amount?

I don't think the GeForce2 Go uses host memory, but if it does it may be
worth
checking if the system bios has an option to increase the amount available to
the card.


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--- Comment #12 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2009-01-13
17:58:48 PST ---
The BIOS does not give me the option to modify the videoram, or anything
related. It is the basic Dell BIOS with limited configuration options.

The Geforce2Go in the laptop does indeed have 8MB of ram. It is being detected
correctly. For what it's worth, NVIDIA's proprietary driver works just
fine, as
well as the NV driver, with a desktop resolution of 1024x768(games crawl at
this resolution, however).


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--- Comment #13 from Stuart Bennett <sb476 at cam.ac.uk>  2009-01-13
19:26:20 PST ---
Looking again at the log provided (apologies for missing this bug when it was
first filed), I note it's picking up a 1360x1360 virtual resolution, which
at
32 bits per pixel will use 7.6M of ram for the display with very little left
over, irrespective of the fact that nouveau tries to use only half the detected
amount for the display, and 7.6M clearly doesn't fit in 4M.

I'd suggest removing any line in the xorg.conf setting a large virtual size,
or
indeed, anything else suggesting the server display a 1360 wide image.  This
should cause it to use try to use a 1024x1024 virtual by default (the xserver
makes it square for rotation purposes) -- if you don't need rotation, add
the
line `Virtual 1024 768' in xorg.conf under the depth 24 "display"
subsection
(in the "screen" section) for an even smaller memory footprint. 
Finally, you
might try setting DefaultDepth 16 in xorg.conf which should use half as much
memory and so fit, but may be less stable (less tested), and will look worse.

If something's unclear here, attaching your current xorg.conf may help.


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--- Comment #14 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2009-01-14
19:55:56 PST ---
I have not actually used nouveau in a very long time, but I do remember my
xorg.conf not having a "Virtual" line at all. I have since moved to
Debian(from
Ubuntu), but I could probably try reinstalling the driver again and testing it.
Basically, I don't have the xorg.conf I used to use.

I will try testing again.


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--- Comment #15 from Evan Goers <megatog615 at gmail.com>  2009-01-20
19:29:21 PST ---
Ok, after some testing, changing the virtual line to "Virtual 1024
768" or
changing the Depth to 16 doesn't seem to work. I still get the same old
black
screen and unusable system.


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--- Comment #16 from Stuart Bennett <sb476 at cam.ac.uk>  2009-01-20
21:04:25 PST ---
Thanks for re-testing.  If you've still got it, attaching your Xorg.0.log
(or
Xorg.0.log.old) of the attempt would help determine if it's still the memory
issue or something else.


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--- Comment #17 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-04 02:31:03
PST ---
I get also a similar problem with a NV11DDR. The bios indicates 32 Mb of VRAM
at startup, also confirmed in Xorg.log, so it may not be due to low vram
amount.

Here are the logs :

messages.log:
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera agpgart-sis 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera agpgart-sis 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x
mode
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera nouveau 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera [drm] Allocating FIFO number 0
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 0
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera [drm] Allocating FIFO number 1
Mar  4 12:04:29 hera [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
Mar  4 12:04:30 hera [drm] PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 1/4 Mthd 0x0180 Data
0x00000000

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge
(AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC
Bridge)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller
(rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller
(rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97
Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Asix Electronics Corporation AX88141 Fast Ethernet
Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX200]
(rev b2)

Xorg.0.log attached.


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--- Comment #18 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-04 02:33:09
PST ---
Created an attachment (id=23506)
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--- Comment #19 from Stephane Marchesin <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> 
2009-03-04 02:40:52 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=23507)
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--- Comment #20 from Stephane Marchesin <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> 
2009-03-04 02:41:32 PST ---
Btw, please don't trim kernel logs next time, as this could hide relevant
information.


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--- Comment #21 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-04 05:38:26
PST ---
With the patch id doesn't work either.
However, I got some new messages in kernel.log (also I tried without starting
kdm but with startx).
The logfile is attached below.


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--- Comment #22 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-04 05:39:00
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Created an attachment (id=23512)
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--- Comment #23 from Stephane Marchesin <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> 
2009-03-05 23:59:50 PST ---
Can you retry with current git of everything ?


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--- Comment #24 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-06 06:21:15
PST ---
The problem has disappeared with current git version !


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--- Comment #25 from Stephane Marchesin <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> 
2009-03-06 06:22:57 PST ---
Good. Do you still ahve the patch on the DDX or not ?


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--- Comment #26 from Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr>  2009-03-06 07:05:57
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No, it is the unpatched git version.


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