Nouveau - Feb 2013 - [Bug 60516] New: nouveau driver graphics corrupted in 3.7 kernel for nvidia FX5200 [NV34] hardware

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60516

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 60516
          Assignee: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: nouveau driver graphics corrupted in 3.7 kernel for
                    nvidia FX5200 [NV34] hardware
        QA Contact: xorg-team at lists.x.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux (All)
          Reporter: lee_matheson at hotmail.com
          Hardware: x86 (IA32)
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: Driver/nouveau
           Product: xorg

The 3.7 kernel nouveau driver provides a corrupted display when booting to a PC
with an older nvidia FX5200 graphic card.  This was tested with:
* openSUSE-12.3 32-bit beta1 KDE liveCD and 3.7.1 kernel
* openSUSE-12.3 32-bit RC1 KDE liveCD and 3.7.6-1.2 kernel
* openSUSE-12.2 with the 32-bit Tumbleweed 3.7.2-18 kernel (on an LXDE desktop)
* Porteus-1.2 (release candidate version) which has the 3.7.5 kernel (and is
slackware based).
* Bodhi-2.2.0-32 which has the 3.7.0-7 kernel (and is Ubuntu based)

I rolled back the openSUSE-12.2 with the 32-bit Tumbleweed 3.7.2-18 kernel
(which I noted had the graphics corruption) to a 3.4.6 kernel (with nouveau)
and it works fine on this same PC with both a KDE and an LXDE desktop.  I
tested a Knoppix-7.0.5 with its 3.6.11 kernel which booted fine to superb
graphics with the nouveau driver, to a nice 1680x1050 resolution on this old
FX5200 (NV34) hardware (with special desktop effects working nicely).  

Ergo I believe the 3.7 kernel is at fault.

I have raised a bug report on openSUSE here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686 but I believe the problem to
be upstream with the nouveau driver. 

The graphics look like this:  http://www.imagebam.com/image/aaa1db233074551 and
that is pretty much the same appearance across all GNU/Linux distribution
versions that I have tested with the 3.7.x kernel and the nouveau driver.

dmesg of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel :
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522124

xorg.0.log of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522125

/var/log/messages of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522126

xsesson errors of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522127

I looked at the image of the corruption (with the 3.7 kernel) on NVIDIA GeForce
8400M G graphics card in this bug report
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58378 and it looks difference,
hence I believe that 'may' be a different problem.

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--- Comment #1 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson at hotmail.com> ---
I note a bug report on Red Hat bugzilla (kernel-PAE-3.7.3-101.fc17.i686) which
could be the same: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905631 (and also
3.8.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc19.i686.PAE in same bug report has possible same problem)

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--- Comment #2 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson at hotmail.com> ---
This bug here may be the same:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58261

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--- Comment #3 from Darren <overcaff3inated at yahoo.com> ---
This "corrupted display on boot" issue manifests itself with Fuduntu
2013.1 and
the 3.7.6-1 kernel as well. The screen looks similar to the screenshot linked
in the comment of 2013-02-08 20:50, though in the case of my laptop, the screen
starts out mostly black.

Several small colored vertical lines populat3 and then spread to cover the
entire screen, gradually getting lighter in color as they do so.

My video card information is below:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [Quadro FX Go700]
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Dell Device 019b
    Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ
11
    Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau

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Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at gmail.com> changed:

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

--- Comment #4 from Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at gmail.com> ---
Fixed by f6853faa85793bf23b46787e4039824d275453c2 in 3.9-rc2.

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--- Comment #5 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson at hotmail.com> ---
This comment is just a confirmation of the fix ( - drm/nouveau: Fix typo in
init_idx_addr_latched()  ).

On my 32-bit openSUSE-12.3 setup (with the FX5200 graphic card) I updated the
kernel to the latest SuSE-GmbH built 3.7.10-1.4 kernel (where that kernel has
the noted 'typo fix' ) and the nouveau graphic driver works well with
it.

Thank you all for the fix.

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