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

[Lev A. Melnikovsky]

Maarten,

  On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 12:12am, Maarten Maathuis wrote:

MM> The first thing to check is if the monitor works when connected as 
MM> vga, not dvi.
Sorry for the delay. The monitor does work when connected via VGA. Below 
is the output when both cables are connected:

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: failed to evaluate _DSM: 5
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected an NV30 generation card (0x034200b1)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PROM
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: ... appears to be valid
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: BMP BIOS found
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: BMP version 5.39
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Bios version 04.34.20.27
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 2.2
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000300 000088b8
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02010310 000088b8
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 01010312 00000000
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 02020321 00000003
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Loading NV17 power sequencing microcode
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xE5D9
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xE7EA
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xE930
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xEAB6
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xEAD3
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 5 at offset 0xEAF0
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 6 at offset 0xEC74
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 128 MiB VRAM
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 128 MiB GART (aperture)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Initial CRTC_OWNER is 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Saving VGA fonts
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a VGA connector
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a DVI-I connector
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Detected a TV connector
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 1)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on tmds encoder (output 2)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on TV encoder (output 3)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: allocated 1600x1200 fb: 0x49000, bo f68f5000
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Output DVI-I-1 is running on CRTC 1 using output A
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: 0xDBBA: Parsing digital output script table
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on tmds encoder (output 2)
[drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Output DVI-I-1 is running on CRTC 1 using output A
[drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.15 20090420 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0

I can select active monitor input using the on screen menu. If DVI is 
selected then the monitor goes to standby. When VGA is selected a nice 
Linux console appears.

I don't know if this is interesting: nvidia proprietary driver outputs 
nothing to DVI until I disconnect the VGA cable. Might be possible to 
adjust with some driver option probably, did not investigate...

What else could I try?

Thanks you
-L