Nouveau - Jun 2016 - GV98 adapter, experience with nouveau

Thank you!

Now, I'd appreciate some hints on how to make 
console work, at least.
How are the video modes controlled, e.g., can I 
have some analogue of /etc/fb.modes for nouveau?

-Yury

On 01/06/16 20:38, poma wrote:
> On 01.06.2016 13:48, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
...
>> 1) Console does not initialise the output
>> correctly if video mode is not restricted to
>> 640x480 by kernel command line with '...
>> video=640x480'. Any other (bigger) resolution
>> there, or no restriction, and the screen blanks;
>> also, for either 800x600 or 1024x768 upper
>> limits the monitor outputs the warning about
>> unusable mode, 26.8KHz/43Hz for 800x600, and
>> 21.6KHz/27Hz for 1024x768.
...

On 01.06.2016 20:20, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> Thank you!
> 
> Now, I'd appreciate some hints on how to make 
> console work, at least.
> How are the video modes controlled, e.g., can I 
> have some analogue of /etc/fb.modes for nouveau?
> 
> -Yury
> 

After hand-over:
"fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA"

video device "automatically" switches to the native resolution of the
connected display.

If it does not work:
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/

On 01.06.2016 20:44, poma wrote:
> On 01.06.2016 20:20, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Now, I'd appreciate some hints on how to make 
>> console work, at least.
>> How are the video modes controlled, e.g., can I 
>> have some analogue of /etc/fb.modes for nouveau?
>>
>> -Yury
>>
> 
> 
> After hand-over:
> "fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA"
> 
> video device "automatically" switches to the native resolution of
the connected display.
> 
> If it does not work:
> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/
> 
> 
"If you are using packages from your distribution and are unable/unwilling
to test the latest versions of all the pieces of nouveau, send the bug reports
to your distribution and not directly to us. If you're using an out-of-date
software version, our first question will probably be "does it still happen
on latest"."
Ref.
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/

This is why I referred to the "try to test with newer software",
e.g. Rawhide LiveCD/DVDs
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Spins/x86_64/iso/

I have tested it with NVIDIA G98 here, and it works as expected.

With this approach - test with the "latest and greatest" - you can
create a reference point for further comparison - with lower versions of
software components.


Godspeed