[Nouveau] nouveaufb problems with NV18

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On , George Spelvin <linux at horizon.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply! Sorry it took me a day to respond.



> > Is there anything at all connected to the other output (referred to as  
> TV-1

> > in your log)? You can try disabling TV detection with the tv_disable

> > nouveau.ko module parameter if a non-existent TV is somehow being  
> detected.



> No, nothing. Adding the parameter (it's actually tv_disable=1; required

> a couple of reboots since the module's loaded early and can't be unloaded)

> produced a full-screen console (67x240), but with the same "flashing"

> to the right on system activity. (I don't get it on VC switch now,  
> however!)



> Also, the display (DVI-D) appears to be half a line low. Tall characters

> ($ and ^) on the top line have their topmost row of pixels replicated  
> into a

> vertical stripe, and the bottom row of text is only half visible.

> (Actually a little more than half; both bars of = are visible.)



> X still refuses to start; messages attached.

> ...
> [ 40726.087] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error allocating scanout buffer: 0
> ...

I think someone else had the above problem on an NV1x card as well recently  
and tried to debug it. Not sure about your fb related issues though, that  
might be a separate issue. You can open a bug against nouveau at  
bugs.freedesktop.org, hopefully someone can assist you further.
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