[Nouveau] Nouveau [vanilla 2.6.33] + GeForce FX 5200 = blank screen

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Lev A. Melnikovsky <melnikovsky at mail.ru> wrote:
> ...please, could someone investigate this? I'd be glad to provide more
> info or test patches or whatever...
>
>  On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 at 6:50pm, Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:
>
> LAM> Hi there,
> LAM>
> LAM> I have just decided to try this new driver stuff (used 2.6.27 earlier and a
> LAM> proprietary nvidia driver) but the monitor (Samsung 214T) becomes black and
> LAM> the power LED starts flashing (standby) after loading nouveau module (from
> LAM> a fresh 2.6.33). For now I am trying framebuffer only. The monitor is
> LAM> connected with a single link DVI cable.
> LAM>
> LAM> lspci -nn
> LAM> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce
> LAM> FX 5200] [10de:0322] (rev a1)
> LAM>
> LAM> dmesg| grep drm
> LAM> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: failed to evaluate _DSM: 5
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected an NV30 generation card (0x034200b1)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PROM
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: ... appears to be valid
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: BMP BIOS found
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: BMP version 5.39
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Bios version 04.34.20.27
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 2.2
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000300 000088b8
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02010310 000088b8
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 01010312 00000000
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 02020321 00000003
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Loading NV17 power sequencing microcode
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xE5D9
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xE7EA
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xE930
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xEAB6
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xEAD3
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 5 at offset 0xEAF0
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 6 at offset 0xEC74
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 128 MiB VRAM
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 128 MiB GART (aperture)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 0
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 0
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Initial CRTC_OWNER is 0
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Saving VGA fonts
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a VGA connector
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a DVI-I connector
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a TV connector
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 1)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on tmds encoder (output 2)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on TV encoder (output 3)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: allocated 1600x1200 fb: 0x49000, bo f6971400
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Output DVI-I-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 0xDBBA: Parsing digital output script table
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on tmds encoder (output 2)
> LAM> [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Output DVI-I-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
> LAM> [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.15 20090420 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0
> LAM>
> LAM> I would appreciate any help. Please let me know if additional information
> LAM> (should I set debugging flags?) is required.
> LAM>
> LAM> Thanks
> LAM> -L
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The first thing to check is if the monitor works when connected as vga, not dvi.