Nouveau - Mar 2011 - [Bug 35514] New: Black screen with nouveau on a GeForce 8600M GT, either LiveCD or fresh install

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35514

           Summary: Black screen with nouveau on a GeForce 8600M GT,
                    either LiveCD or fresh install
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.6
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: high
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: bryce at canonical.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Forwarding this bug from Ubuntu reporter Mathieu Marquer:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/713864

[Problem]
Black screen on boot; system otherwise seems to have loaded correctly.

[Original Description]
Using Ubuntu Natty up-to-date on a Dell Vostro 1500 with a GeForce 8600M GT
GPU. When I boot on the LiveCD or on a fresh install, nouveau seems to load
correctly but all I get is a black screen.

On the attached Xorg.log, the lines at 27.960 is when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to
see if I can get a tty (I still get a black screen), and 31.965 is when I
Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the computer.

Note that it kind of works when nVidia proprietary drivers are installed or
when I use nomodeset (it actually uses Vesa instead of Nouveau.

Please let me know if you need additional informations.

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb  6 00:58:13 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.0.2: added
GraphicsCard:   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0228]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64
(20110131)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 1500
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8ProcKernelCmdLine:
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-1-generic
root=UUID=55a88c4e-93f6-4ba7-aeae-9104bddc2682 ro nomodeset
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0WY040
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd04/21/2008:svnDellInc.:pnVostro1500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WY040:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Vostro 1500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu9
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati
1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu4

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--- Comment #1 from Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> 2011-03-21
11:27:23 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=44676)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44676)
CurrentDmesg.txt

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--- Comment #2 from Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> 2011-03-21
11:27:47 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=44677)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44677)
BootDmesg.txt

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--- Comment #3 from Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> 2011-03-21
11:28:19 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=44678)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44678)
Xorg.0.log

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There are a couple of things that should be taken into account

1. In the dmesg log provided nouveau is not loaded (remove nomodeset from
the kernel command line)
2. Please (re)move the nouveau_dri.so file, as 3D is not supported.

Most likely the issue is unrelated to point 2, but without a comprehensive
log (see point 1), nothing decisive can be said.
As a possible "fix" take a look at Forcing Modes [1], and select a
lower resolution. (the list can be seen in your Xorg log)

[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

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--- Comment #4 from nholtz at cee.carleton.ca 2011-03-21 13:17:13 PDT ---
I wonder if this is the problem that causes the HDMI output to be selected and
turns off the screen graphics.  As in...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/724722

If you have an HDMI output, try hooking it to something ...

neal

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--- Comment #5 from Mathieu Marquer <mathieu.marquer at gmail.com>
2011-03-21 13:18:28 PDT ---
No HDMI, just a VGA, but I'll try.

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Mathieu Marquer <mathieu.marquer at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Attachment #44676|0                           |1
        is obsolete|                            |
  Attachment #44677|0                           |1
        is obsolete|                            |

--- Comment #6 from Mathieu Marquer <mathieu.marquer at gmail.com>
2011-03-23 14:00:45 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=44767)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44767)
Actual dmesg (without "nomodeset")

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--- Comment #7 from Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers at
gmail.com> 2011-04-04 04:55:12 PDT ---
The many
[   17.961632] composite sync not supported
messages might be a part of the problem as they correspond to the
[    18.479] (II) NOUVEAU(0): DDCModeFromDetailedTiming: 1440x900 Warning: We
only handle separate sync.
Xorg.0.log warnings.

The dmesg would be more useful if you added ?drm.debug=0x04? to the kernel
command line; that turns on KMS debug messages, and since this is (at least) a
modesetting problem they're likely to be useful.

You say that the nvidia binary driver *kind of* works?  Is this one of the
laptops where the nvidia driver doesn't work properly?

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--- Comment #8 from Mathieu Marquer <mathieu.marquer at gmail.com>
2011-04-04 05:04:39 PDT ---
I agree that I was unclear in that sentence:
* It works fine with nVidia proprietary driver
* If I use the "nomodeset" kernel setting (without nVidia proprietary
driver
installed), it only works because VESA driver is used instead of Nouveau.

I'll attach a dmesg with the ?drm.debug=0x04? parameter tonight.

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--- Comment #9 from Mathieu Marquer <mathieu.marquer at gmail.com>
2011-04-04 11:26:46 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=45238)
 --> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=45238)
dmesg with drm.debug=0x04

Here it is, at 42.xxx is when I switch to tty1 using Ctrl+Alt+F1 (I still get a
black screen although it's still turned on)

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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 #10 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we
haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty
good
that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot.
(Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git
versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your
distro's
bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report.

In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs
that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please
make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/
for what we need to see, and re-open this one.

Thanks,

The Nouveau Team

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