[Nouveau] 2.6.33 vs. NVIDIA GForce GT 220

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:28:06 -0800
Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:47, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> > > I tried enabling staging nvidia driver on GT220, but
> >> > > apparently driver does not know about it. Unfortunately, I
> >> > > have one of those cards here.
> >> > >
> >> > > (I wonder... is there better mailing list? MAINTAINERS
> >> > > only lists linux-fbdev....)
> >>
> >> The list is nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org. And driver knows
> >> about GT220 just fine, I've been using it for a month or two
> >> on GT220 already. Don't bother
> >
> > Perhaps nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org should be added to
> > MAINTAINERS?
> >
> >> about the "supported cards" lists in xf86-video-nouveau or
> >> wherever else, the driver will happily bind to any nvidia
> >> video card with known generation, even if nobody has seen that
> >> precise model before.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the driver does not seem happy:
> >
> > Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491073] nvidiafb
> > 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491507] nvidiafb: Device ID:
> > 10de0a20
> > Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491546] Chipset is 10de0a20
> > Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491584] nvidiafb: unknown
> > NV_ARCH Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.492119] vga16fb:
> > initializing
> >
> 
> Hmm, but this is not nouveau, this is nvidiafb...

And both nvidiafb and vga16fb are known make Nouveau misbehave:
nvidiafb because it messes up the card state, and vga16fb because it
does not do the fb driver hand-over, AFAIK.

Relevant or not, I'd like to advertise our new troubleshooting page:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting

I'm also adding the CCs that were dropped earlier.

Was the original question in this thread about nvidiafb or Nouveau?


Thanks.

-- 
Pekka Paalanen
http://www.iki.fi/pq/