Problems with X starting up w/ Nouveau on NV11 chipset

[Alex Buell]

Hi!

After experiencing the exact same problem with two other distributions
(Fedora 15 and Ubuntu Natty), and again with Gentoo, I'm now asking
whether anyone has experienced the same problems with the NV11 chipset.

Symptoms:


First my Xorg.0.log:
(only the last few lines included)
[    70.626] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0
[    70.632] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called.
[    70.653] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set mode: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
[    70.654] failed to create screen resources
[    70.654] 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    70.654] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    70.654] 
[    70.655] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[    70.655] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVLeaveVT is called.

And in my /var/log/messages, I get these messages:

Jan 10 01:54:11 hydrogen kernel: [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:6]
Jan 10 01:54:12 hydrogen kernel: [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:6]
Jan 10 01:54:13 hydrogen kernel: [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:6]
Jan 10 01:56:40 hydrogen kernel: [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:6]
Jan 10 01:57:56 hydrogen kernel: [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:6]

Any ideas why? Thanks for any advice given!
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