Nouveau - Nov 2008 - [Bug 18638] New: Nouveau fails totally on new Macbook Unibody 13.3" Ubuntu (xorg.0.log included)

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18638

           Summary: Nouveau fails totally on new Macbook Unibody 13.3"
                    Ubuntu (xorg.0.log included)
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: yerazunis at merl.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Created an attachment (id=20470)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=20470)
X log of the nouveau fail on 

Nouveau fails totally on the new Macbook Unibody (macbook series 5.1).  It
gets only to the point of displaying a movable "X" cursor on a black
screen,
then fails and drops back to asking what failsafe mode the user wants.  Simply
commenting out the    Driver "nouveau"    line in xorg.conf clears the
problem
immediately (but drops us back to VESA modes).

This happens both on an X server restart and on a cold boot.
X itself is OK; both the VESA and Nvidia proprietary drivers work well 
enough.  The id of the card is (from lspci):
 ...
 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M (rev b1)
 ...

The full Xorg.0.log of the failure is attached.  Enjoy.

     Bill Yerazunis


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--- Comment #1 from William Yerazunis <yerazunis at merl.com>  2008-11-20
08:39:55 PST ---
(From update of attachment 20470)
Oh- it seems the final error message is "failed to allocate memory for
framebuffer".  Which is strange, as the machine has 4 gigs in it and
process
monitors show only about 500megs total in use including disk buffers.


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--- Comment #2 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>  2008-11-20
08:43:17 PST ---
Part of the problem is that we don't have any microcode copied for your card
(type 0xAC). For that you need a mmio-trace and someone bored enough to extract
it. I'm curious if your card works with the nv driver (the 0xAA have
problems).


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--- Comment #3 from William Yerazunis <yerazunis at merl.com>  2008-11-21
06:41:51 PST ---
OK, no problem.  I'm willing to do that.

It does "work" to some extent with the proprietary driver (that is, I
get nice
video), but I don't get external display output (but have only really tried 
from the GUI tool; I didn't go into the xorg.conf file).

I will be on the IRC channel today; you can guide me through capturing 
whatever info you need.

   - Bill


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--- Comment #4 from William Yerazunis <yerazunis at merl.com>  2008-11-21
07:08:42 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=20493)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=20493)
Xorg.0.log of 


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Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> 
2008-12-23 03:41:59 PST ---
Just FYI, since I just tried, the current drm git
(b48bd3a036efa3c3aa759759a5be4f80f1c3ac72) and nouveau git
(31c9958779d95ae84993f4772607367927a0e313) doesn't work, but for me it just
disables the X server and nothing crashes. The kernel also printed some
warnings, will attach complete log of both.

Mind you, my memory was fragmented enough yesterday that an order-5 allocation
failed, I didn't see a memory allocation failure here though.


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--- Comment #6 from Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> 
2008-12-23 03:42:49 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=21433)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=21433)
X and kernel log


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--- Comment #7 from Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> 
2008-12-23 03:44:07 PST ---
Oh, and regarding the question about nv, it doesn't work. I can provide a
log,
but I remember that I explicitly needed to enable "vesa" to get output
at all.


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Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> changed:

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            Summary|Nouveau fails totally on new|nouveau fails on macbook 5,1
                   |Macbook Unibody 13.3"       |
                   |Ubuntu (xorg.0.log included)|




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--- Comment #8 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>  2008-12-23
12:50:38 PST ---
Your 9400 seems to have the same problem as the 8200/8300, they are a type of
onboard chip we are not familiar with. I'm inclined to wait until nv works
with
them.


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Vedran Mileti? <rivanvx at fastmail.fm> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|nouveau fails on macbook 5,1|nouveau fails on GeForce
                   |                            |9400M (Apple Macbook 5.1)




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Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|medium                      |high
            Summary|nouveau fails on GeForce    |nouveau fails on GeForce
                   |9400M (Apple Macbook 5.1)   |9400M




--- Comment #9 from Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> 
2009-10-15 12:24:41 PST ---
I provide a mmiotrace for 9400M and via HDMI->HDMI connected LCD:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-1947951/9400M-HDMI-mmiotrace.tar.gz.html (~
12 MiB)

I know it is not for a Macbook but it should also help; it could also be
helpful for bug #23373...

Because it seems that there are currently problems with this chipset on all
systems I am truncating the bug to "nouveau fails on GeForce 9400M"
and
changing priority to "high"...

If you need more mmiotraces I can provide them also for DVI->HDMI,
DVI->VGA and
VGA->VGA (via specific cables...).


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Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com>  2009-10-20
01:23:43 PST ---
Hello all! I have a Macbook 5,1 ; and I would love to see nouveau working on
it. I am willing to put some effort into getting an mmiotrace if it will be
helpful. Currently when I run: 

echo mmiotrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

it fails; as you can see. This command is run in a `sudo -s` shell.

Let me know if you can help/if I should persevere.


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--- Comment #11 from Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi>  2009-10-20 09:12:04
PST ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> 
> echo mmiotrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
This should mean that mmiotrace support has not been compiled into the kernel.
Check that CONFIG_MMIOTRACE is enabled: Kernel hacking -> Tracers [*] ->
Memory
mapped IO tracing.


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--- Comment #12 from Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com>  2009-10-23
17:01:11 PST ---
Okay... I have finally had time to compile my own kernel (based upon Ubuntu
2.6.31 configuration). It is the first time I have done so; but all seems to be
working well.

I have generated the MMIO trace for just starting X; since this is probably
going to be cleaner than starting GDM/GNOME. I did generate that as well, just
in case you want it later.

The marker indicating that X has fully loaded (after which I had to switch to a
virtual terminal and login; which may cause some extraneous debug output; I do
not know) is "X is up".

I will try to attach the 19 MB file below.


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--- Comment #13 from Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com>  2009-10-23
17:14:50 PST ---
Okay... that was bound to fail.

Please find the trace file at;

http://www.matthewwardrop.co.cc/tracing.txt.tar.bz2

Note: this trace was run on Ubuntu using a custom kernel based on settings from
the default 2.6.31-14 kernel in Karmic (i.e. 2.6.31.4). It traces the starting
of an empty X session using the proprietary nVidia drivers 185.18.36 as
packaged in Ubuntu. The hardware being used is the MacBook 5,1 ; with nVidia
9400m.

I also uploaded the GDM trace:
http://www.matthewwardrop.co.cc/tracing-gdm.txt.tar.bz2
The details are the same as above, but instead of starting an empty session, I
started GDM/GNOME with compiz enabled, etc.

I do hope this helps; for I'd love to run nouveau on my MacBook.


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--- Comment #14 from Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com>  2009-10-23
17:18:54 PST ---
I ought also to add that I had an external monitor plugged into the
mini-displayport connector; but that it was disabled.

Kind Regards,
Matthew


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Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> 
2009-10-26 08:18:05 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=30698)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=30698)
Xorg.0.log

Current Xorg.0.log - git20091024


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--- Comment #16 from Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> 
2009-10-26 08:18:58 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=30699)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=30699)
dmesg

Current dmesg output - git20091024


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--- Comment #17 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> 
2009-10-26 11:48:13 PST ---
According to Ben Skeggs these types of cards, eg the onboard 0xAx cards (8200,
8300, some 9400, g102 iirc) will not run with userspace modesetting mode.
Please add modeset=1 to the nouveau module parameters to switch to kernel
modesetting.


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--- Comment #18 from Johannes Obermayr <johannesobermayr at gmx.de> 
2009-10-26 13:35:52 PST ---
KMS and X work if I set nouveau.modeset=1 as boot parameter.

dmesg then:
[    0.000000] Unknown boot option `nouveau.modeset=1': ignoring

If I leave it blank or set modeset=1 KMS/X does not work...

On my Laptop with ATI/AMD Radeon 9000 (M9) KMS is working if I set modeset=1,
radeon.modeset=1 or leave it blank.

It is stupid and annoying if you do not know this...


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--- Comment #19 from Matthew <mister.wardrop at gmail.com>  2009-10-26
15:51:55 PST ---
Setting modeset=1 and nouveau.modeset=1 does not help the driver to run
properly on MacBook 5,1; although it appeared to detect my external monitor
automatically (artifacts displayed on both screens).

=(

Kind Regards,
Matthew


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--- Comment #20 from Frederic Riss <frederic.riss at gmail.com> 
2009-11-24 01:25:51 PST ---
I just installed Fedora 12 (which uses nouveau and KMS) on my MacBook this
week-end and here's the status: the driver seems to basically work, however
it's crashes during resume (making it very hard to use on a laptop).

I filed a bug with the resume crash data in Fedora's bugzilla, should I post
it
here too? Or maybe this bug should be closed as it seems nouveau is working on
the 9400M and handle the resume failure in another bug?


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Lucas Stach <dev at lynxeye.de> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #21 from Lucas Stach <dev at lynxeye.de> 2011-02-15 01:09:18
PST ---
Closing this as fixed, since we have at least one report of nouveau working on
this chipset.

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