<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> Greetings. I have an aging GeForce4 MX ( integrated ). I just updated to Ubuntu-8.10 without considering the consequences of moving to xserver-1.5. Needless to say I won't be using Compiz for a while now ... So I've tried to get nouveau drivers running ( I've been watching the project, but mainly waiting for a release ... now my hand has been forced ). I used the packages for Ubuntu at <A HREF="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/UbuntuPackages">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/UbuntuPackages</A> ... I also completely removed nVidia's drivers. I don't have mesa drivers at this point. Do I need them if I only want 2D? I remember reading something about some 2D drivers requiring the 3D engine for some reason, but I don't even remember which driver this was for. Anyway, at this point, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10-beta's packaged mesa-7.1, which doesn't have the nouveau_dri.so ( or whatever it's called ). When I start X, I get a very corrupted display. The mouse cursor is OK - everything else looks like an uninitialised memory dump. I stuff like this in my dmesg output: [   70.043671] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKE] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 16 [   70.045958] [drm] Detected an NV17 generation card (0x01f000a5) [   70.045965] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.11  on minor 0 [   70.478887] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge [   70.478926] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [   70.478976] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [   71.615566] [drm] Allocating FIFO number 0 [   71.616691] [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 0 [   71.616734] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   74.414225] [drm] Allocating FIFO number 1 [   74.414856] [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 1 [   74.414867] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   75.712013] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [   75.728013] br0: no IPv6 routers present [   82.639930] [drm] nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 1 [   84.639766] [drm:nouveau_fifo_free] *ERROR* Failed to idle channel 1 before destroy.Prepare for strangeness.. [   84.639856] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   84.838771] [drm] nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0 [   86.838600] [drm:nouveau_fifo_free] *ERROR* Failed to idle channel 0 before destroy.Prepare for strangeness.. [   86.838671] [drm] cleanning a channel with graph in current context [   86.838682] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   90.419989] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge [   90.420050] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [   90.420100] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [   91.363648] [drm] Allocating FIFO number 0 [   91.364532] [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 0 [   91.364572] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   91.366293] [drm] Allocating FIFO number 1 [   91.366921] [drm] nouveau_fifo_alloc: initialised FIFO 1 [   91.366929] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [   98.062622] [drm] nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 1 [  100.062456] [drm:nouveau_fifo_free] *ERROR* Failed to idle channel 1 before destroy.Prepare for strangeness.. [  100.062538] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 [  100.392112] [drm] nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0 [  102.391940] [drm:nouveau_fifo_free] *ERROR* Failed to idle channel 0 before destroy.Prepare for strangeness.. [  102.392019] [drm] cleanning a channel with graph in current context [  102.392031] [drm] PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0 I also get: Fatal server error: DMA queue hang: dmaPut=4e9, current=0, status=0 ... in my Xorg.0.log Full Xorg.0.log: <A HREF="http://entropy.homelinux.org/nouveau/Xorg.0.log">http://entropy.homelinux.org/nouveau/Xorg.0.log</A> Full dmesg output: <A HREF="http://entropy.homelinux.org/nouveau/dmesg.txt">http://entropy.homelinux.org/nouveau/dmesg.txt</A> Is this a known issue? Is there anything else I can provide? As noted, I can't load up nVidia's drivers now to produce a dump ... I should have thought about this before ... Dan <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#f2f2f2" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="5" BORDER="2"> <TR> <TD> <IMG SRC="cid:1222130466.6895.1.camel@dkasak" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"> </TD> <TD> Daniel Kasak / DNA Application Developer T: +61.2.8968.4056 / F: +61.2.9904.5055 <A HREF="mailto:daniel.kasak@247realmedia.com">daniel.kasak@247realmedia.com</A> </TD> <TD> 24/7 Real Media 15-19 Parraween Street Cremorne, NSW 2090 Australia </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>