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title="NEW --- - nouveau driver graphics corrupted in 3.7 kernel for nvidia FX5200 [NV34] hardware"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60516">60516</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>nouveau driver graphics corrupted in 3.7 kernel for nvidia FX5200 [NV34] hardware
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>xorg-team@lists.x.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>lee_matheson@hotmail.com
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86 (IA32)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Driver/nouveau
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<td>xorg
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<pre>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:
<a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686">https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686</a> but I believe the problem to
be upstream with the nouveau driver.
The graphics look like this: <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/aaa1db233074551">http://www.imagebam.com/image/aaa1db233074551</a> 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 :
<a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522124">https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522124</a>
xorg.0.log of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
<a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522125">https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522125</a>
/var/log/messages of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
<a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522126">https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522126</a>
xsesson errors of openSUSE-12.3 B1 w/3.7.1 kernel:
<a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522127">https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=522127</a>
I looked at the image of the corruption (with the 3.7 kernel) on NVIDIA GeForce
8400M G graphics card in this bug report
<a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW --- - Distorted graphics on NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G after upgrade the kernel to 3.7.0 version"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=58378">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58378</a> and it looks difference,
hence I believe that 'may' be a different problem.</pre>
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