[Nouveau] [Bug 58378] [NV86] Distorted graphics on NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G after upgrade the kernel to 3.7.0 version

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58378

--- Comment #54 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
(In reply to comment #52)
> Hello again, Ilia,
> 
> > Can you grab envytools (https://github.com/envytools/envytools) and run
> 
> bad news (or maybe expected from what we have been seeing earlier): 
> 
> [aloew at aloew-lap envytools-master]$ ./nva/nvapeek 10200c
> WARN: Can't probe 0000:01:00.0
> PCI init failure!
> 
> [aloew at aloew-lap envytools-master]$ ./nva/nvapoke 10200c 10
> WARN: Can't probe 0000:01:00.0
> PCI init failure!

You need to run these as root.

> > I'd also still be interested in knowing whether a previously-known-good 
> > version of the blob still works.
> 
> I am 99.9% certain it does, as my Windows install with NVidia 285.09 driver
> also still runs fine, while any more recent Windows driver from NVidia hangs
> with the same symptoms as their Linux "blob" - I had just checked this last
> week with their latest Windows version 331.82, once again without any luck.

Ah OK, that's probably good enough of a test.

> Maybe indeed you could ask your new friends/contacts at NVidia about this?

I just bugged them about video decoding stuff a few weeks ago, don't want to
use up all of my brownie points :)

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