Nouveau - Mar 2010 - [Bug 27064] New: Nouveau fails to start X. This is a Nvidia G210m, the laptop is an asus UL50vt

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27064

           Summary: Nouveau fails to start X. This is a Nvidia G210m, the
                    laptop is an asus UL50vt
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.5
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: critical
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: stantonmab at my.ccsu.edu
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


This is a dual graphics laptop.  It has a Nvidia g210m and a intel x4500. 
Nouveau KMS is enabled via the kernel staging drivers and Intel KMS is disabled
via the kernel. The nouveau module is loading by default.  

When I boot my computer, the Kernel modeset never actually happens.  I have the
December nouveau firmware package installed, but I get error messages.


Here is the error messages

[    6.636822] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    6.636838] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
IRQ 16
[    6.636865] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    6.639651] ACPI Error: Needed [Buffer/String/Package], found [Integer]
ffff88013cb6e900 (20091214/exresop-590)
[    6.639660] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands
for [OpcodeName unavailable] (20091214/dswexec-445)
[    6.639668] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
[\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_._DSM] (Node ffff88013fa5d120), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE
[    6.639745] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
[\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1.VGA_._DSM] (Node ffff88013fa5eac0), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE
[    6.639803] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: failed to evaluate _DSM: 12291
[    6.640552] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card
(0x0a8a00a2)
[    6.642081] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PRAMIN
[    6.642101] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    6.642103] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PROM
[    6.642121] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    6.642123] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PCIROM
[    6.642188] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
[    6.642217] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    6.642219] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: No valid BIOS image found
[    6.642340] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled



minimal Xorg config

Section "Device"
    Driver         "nouveau"
    BusId          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


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--- Comment #1 from Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>  2010-03-13 14:47:19
PST ---
Please provide full kernel logs. Which kernel version are you using ?

Afaik you need switcheroo for dual graphics, this code should be in 2.6.34-rc1
or in drm-next.
http://lwn.net/Articles/376311/

But no idea if it has any chances to work with nouveau. The initial patch says
it was only tested with Intel/Ati.


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--- Comment #2 from Giacomo Bagnoli <gbagnoli at gmail.com> 2010-04-08
00:47:03 PDT ---
I have a similar problem with a laptop with dual-graphics.
I have tried 2.6.24-rc3 and latest linux-2.6 git (in which i pulled latest code
from nouveau git and acpi/test). This is the "nouveau" part of dmesg,
full
dmesg is attached.

[    9.136247] bus: 'pci': add driver nouveau
[    9.136258] bus: 'pci': driver_probe_device: matched device
0000:01:00.0
with
 driver nouveau
[    9.136261] bus: 'pci': really_probe: probing driver nouveau with
device
0000
:01:00.0
[    9.136275] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    9.137762] device: 'controlD64': device_add
[    9.137794] PM: Adding info for No Bus:controlD64
[    9.137848] device: 'card0': device_add
[    9.137855] PM: Adding info for No Bus:card0
[    9.139301] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card
(0x0a5580a2)
[    9.145797] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PRAMIN
[    9.145811] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    9.145814] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PROM
[    9.145826] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    9.145829] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from
PCIROM
[    9.145924] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
[    9.145970] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    9.145972] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: No valid BIOS image found
[    9.145998] device: 'card0': device_unregister
[    9.146000] PM: Removing info for No Bus:card0
[    9.146045] device: 'controlD64': device_unregister    9.145970]
[drm]
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[    9.145972] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: No valid BIOS image found
[    9.145998] device: 'card0': device_unregister
[    9.146000] PM: Removing info for No Bus:card0
[    9.146045] device: 'controlD64': device_unregister
[    9.146049] PM: Removing info for No Bus:controlD64



[    9.146049] PM: Removing info for No Bus:controlD64

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--- Comment #3 from Giacomo Bagnoli <gbagnoli at gmail.com> 2010-04-08
00:48:34 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=34801)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=34801)
full dmesg output

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--- Comment #4 from Andrea Tacconi <tacconet at libero.it> 2010-04-08
01:09:24 PDT ---
Try to disable nvidiafb.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

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--- Comment #5 from Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com>
2011-12-05 12:19:07 PST ---
Newer version of Nouveau kernel module might handle your card (Nouveau
implements one more VBIOS loading method). Please retest it.

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--- Comment #6 from Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com> ---
Are any of you involved in the development of the nouveau kernel driver?  I am
currently attempting to get the nouveau kernel driver to load/setup
successfully.  I also have a UL50VT.  This laptop does not support Optimus, but
rather has a hardware MUX.

I looked at the nouveau and i915 code and see they need to parse DSM
information to determine whether vgaswitcheroo is supported.  In addition to
the nouveau driver not getting set up correctly, I don't see
/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo.

nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] inc() == 2
nouveau T[     DRM] inc() == 3
nouveau T[     DRM] inc() == 4
nouveau T[     DRM] inc() == 5
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] inc() == 3
nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x0a8a00a2
nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: GT218 (NVA8)
nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50
nouveau D[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] crystal freq: 27000KHz
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] inc() == 4
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PROM for image...
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking ACPI for image...
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PCIROM for image...
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
nouveau E[   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] unable to locate usable image
nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] failed to create 0x10000001, -22
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] dec() == 3
nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] dec() == 2
nouveau T[     DRM] dec() == 4
nouveau T[     DRM] dec() == 3
nouveau T[     DRM] dec() == 2
nouveau D[     DRM] fini running
nouveau T[     DRM] 0xffffffff:0xffffffff fini children
nouveau T[     DRM] 0xffffffff:0xffffffff fini running
nouveau T[     DRM] use(-1) == 1
nouveau T[     DRM] 0xffffffff:0xffffffff fini completed
nouveau D[     DRM] fini completed with 0
nouveau T[     DRM] dec() == 0
nouveau D[     DRM] destroying
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] dec() == 1
nouveau T[     DRM] 0xffffffff:0xffffffff destroy running
nouveau T[     DRM] 0xffffffff:0xffffffff destroy completed
nouveau T[     DRM] dec() == -1
nouveau T[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] dec() == 0
nouveau D[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] destroying
nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

# lspci
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce G210M]
(rev a2)

dmesg:

[    3.517680] vesafb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=0
[    3.517691] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[    3.517700] vesafb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
[    3.518342] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90011380000,
using 3072k, total 3072k
[    3.555338] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[    3.585908] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
[   21.367309] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[   21.422456] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
[   21.425939] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel GM45 Chipset
[   21.426209] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 2097152K total,
262144K mappable
[   21.427707] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 32768K stolen memory
[   21.429098] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
[   21.704900] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   23.171595] ACPI Error: Needed [Buffer/String/Package], found [Integer]
ffff88013a694000 (20120711/exresop-590)
[   23.171605] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands
for [OpcodeName unavailable] (20120711/dswexec-460)
[   23.171899] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_._DSM]
(Node ffff88013ab50000), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE (20120711/psparse-536)
[   23.172151] failed to evaluate _DSM: 12291
[   23.193181] ACPI Error: Needed [Buffer/String/Package], found [Integer]
ffff88013a695c20 (20120711/exresop-590)
[   23.193192] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands
for [OpcodeName unavailable] (20120711/dswexec-460)
[   23.193548] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_._DSM]
(Node ffff88013ab50000), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE (20120711/psparse-536)
[   23.193669] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed
[\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1.VGA_._DSM] (Node ffff88013ab6a730), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE
(20120711/psparse-536)
[   23.193955] failed to evaluate _DSM: 12291
[   23.199675] checking generic (d0000000 300000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
[   23.199680] checking generic (d0000000 300000) vs hw (fa000000 2000000)
[   23.199911] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0004 -> 0007)
[   23.215724] asus_laptop: Asus Laptop Support version 0.42
[   23.265572] asus_laptop:   UL50VT model detected
[   23.287663] checking generic (d0000000 300000) vs hw (d0000000 10000000)
[   23.287668] fb: conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing
generic driver
[   23.482305] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   23.622888] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[   23.632024] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[   23.632029] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[   23.811555] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[   23.811560] vgaarb: transferring owner from PCI:0000:00:02.0 to
PCI:0000:01:00.0

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--- Comment #7 from Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com> ---
Also, I downloaded the source for the acpi_call modules.  When I run
test_off.sh, I get:

     Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P1.VGA._OFF: works!

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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Summary|Nouveau fails to start X.   |[NVA8] can't find VBIOS on
                   |This is a Nvidia G210m, the |Asus UL50VT laptop
                   |laptop is an asus UL50vt    |

--- Comment #8 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
Does this still occur with the latest kernel? There might be something specific
to this laptop about how the VBIOS is stored... if it still doesn't work
with
the latest, we'd need an mmiotrace of the nvidia proprietary driver.

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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #9 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
No response in a year. Closing as invalid. Probably fixed with newer kernels
which are less selective about when to accept a vbios from ACPI.

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Roy <r.spliet at student.tudelft.nl> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|INVALID                     |FIXED

--- Comment #10 from Roy <r.spliet at student.tudelft.nl> ---
Owning the same laptop, I can confirm that at least with kernel 3.16 reading
the VBIOS works correctly,

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