On , George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply! Sorry it took me a day to respond. > > > > > Is there anything at all connected to the other output (referred to as TV-1 > > > in your log)? You can try disabling TV detection with the tv_disable > > > nouveau.ko module parameter if a non-existent TV is somehow being detected. > > > > No, nothing. Adding the parameter (it's actually tv_disable=1; required > > a couple of reboots since the module's loaded early and can't be unloaded) > > produced a full-screen console (67x240), but with the same "flashing" > > to the right on system activity. (I don't get it on VC switch now, however!) > > > > Also, the display (DVI-D) appears to be half a line low. Tall characters > > ($ and ^) on the top line have their topmost row of pixels replicated into a > > vertical stripe, and the bottom row of text is only half visible. > > (Actually a little more than half; both bars of = are visible.) > > > > X still refuses to start; messages attached. > > ... > [ 40726.087] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error allocating scanout buffer: 0 > ... I think someone else had the above problem on an NV1x card as well recently and tried to debug it. Not sure about your fb related issues though, that might be a separate issue. You can open a bug against nouveau at bugs.freedesktop.org, hopefully someone can assist you further.