[Nouveau] GeForce 8500 GT Connectors Reversed

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 08:58:30PM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that the nouveau DRM kernel driver seems to get the
> connectors reversed on my GeForce 8500 GT card.  My setup looks like:
> 
> 8500GT----------VGA-----------Samsung 2043W (1680x1050)
>            |______DVI_______LG L1920P (1280x1024)
> 
> but as far as the kernel is concerned, the Samsung monitor gets
> detected via the DVI probing:
> 
> [    0.521009] [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes],
> [CONNECTOR:15:DVI-I-1] probed modes :
> [    0.521015] [drm:drm_mode_debug_printmodeline], Modeline
> 21:"1680x1050" 60 119000 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 0x48
> 0x9
> 
> and the LG via the VGA probing:
> 
> [    0.551267] [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes],
> [CONNECTOR:17:VGA-1] probed modes :
> [    0.551272] [drm:drm_mode_debug_printmodeline], Modeline
> 89:"1280x1024" 60 108000 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 0x48
> 0x5
> 
> I have used my xorg.conf configuration to re-reverse the monitor
> definitions to get a working system, but should some quirk be added to
> handle this particular card:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce
> 8500 GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 	Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device c793
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> 	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 25
> 	Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> 	Region 1: Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> 	Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
> 	Region 5: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
> 	Expansion ROM at fe7e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> 	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> 		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
> 	Capabilities: [78] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
> 		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <4us
> 			ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
> 		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
> 			RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
> 			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
> 		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
> 		LnkCap:	Port #213, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0
> <512ns, L1 <4us
> 			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
> 		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
> 			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
> 		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive-
> BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
> 	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
> 
> Are there any other details I can provide that could help?  Even if I
> had to write the patch myself and test it, that would be fine by me
> with a little advice.

Please follow this page: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs
and file a bug report.

Marcin