[Nouveau] Fwd: Problem with GT218 (GeForce GT210)

[Ilia Mirkin]

Try something like video=vesafb:off or failing that,

video=vesa:off vga=normal

(based on two separate guides found with a search engine).

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Andre Campos Rodovalho
<andre.rodovalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I got a new dmesg log with the debug parameters, but I guess I could not
> isolate VESA. I blacklisted it at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but
> comparing those logs I see no difference... Is it possible to isolate VESA
> somehow without removing it?
>
> The new logs are here, I'm posting full content because I'm not sure what
> information is more relevant...
> http://webativo.com/uploads/files/debug_nouveau.zip
>
> Cheers
>
> 2015-06-12 6:53 GMT-03:00 Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>:
>>
>> [clipped a bit so that it doesn't get held up by moderator, i've left
>> the relevant dmesg bits in]
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> > Hm, well you can see the messages about failure to set plls, which is
>> > why
>> > you don't see anything. The only odd thing I see is that you're using
>> > vesa,
>> > which can definitely mess things up. Try not using that. Also try
>> > booting
>> > with nouveau.debug=debug drm.debug=0xe which might provide more relevant
>> > info.
>> >
>> > On Jun 12, 2015 8:34 AM, "Andre Campos Rodovalho"
>> > <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> dmesg output:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> [    1.018704] vesafb: mode is 640x480x32, linelength=2560, pages=0
>> >> [    1.018706] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
>> >> [    1.018708] vesafb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
>> >> [    1.026887] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfb000000, mapped to
>> >> 0xffffc90010e80000, using 1216k, total 1216k
>> >> [    1.027623] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
>> >> [    1.028274] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >> [    7.675761] fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA
>> >> [    7.675782] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
>> >> [    7.676119] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x298280a2
>> >> [    7.676122] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: G98 (NV98)
>> >> [    7.676123] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50
>> >> [    7.676213] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for
>> >> image...
>> >> [    7.733822] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... appears to be
>> >> valid
>> >> [    7.733823] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] using image from
>> >> PRAMIN
>> >> [    7.733905] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] BIT signature found
>> >> [    7.733908] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] version 70.18.36.00.00
>> >> [    7.754325] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X
>> >> [    7.754335] nouveau  [     PMC][0000:01:00.0] MSI interrupts enabled
>> >> [    7.754358] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: DDR2
>> >> [    7.754360] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 1024 MiB
>> >> [    7.754361] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0]    ZCOMP: 960 tags
>> >> [    7.784065] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] FAN control: none /
>> >> external
>> >> [    7.784077] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] fan management:
>> >> automatic
>> >> [    7.784079] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] internal sensor: yes
>> >> [    7.784087] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0f: core 550 MHz
>> >> shader
>> >> 1375 MHz memory 266 MHz
>> >> [    7.784121] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] --: core 566 MHz
>> >> shader
>> >> 1400 MHz memory 265 MHz
>> >> [    7.784167] nouveau E[   PDISP][0000:01:00.0] 02:0261: func 08
>> >> lookup
>> >> failed, -2
>> >> [    7.784558] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 4079904
>> >> kiB
>> >> [    7.784560] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152
>> >> kiB
>> >> [    7.784561] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
>> >> [    7.784567] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
>> >> [    7.784584] nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 1024 MiB
>> >> [    7.784586] nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB
>> >> [    7.784590] nouveau  [     DRM] TMDS table version 2.0
>> >> [    7.784593] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 4.0
>> >> [    7.784596] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000300 00000028
>> >> [    7.784599] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 01000302 00020030
>> >> [    7.784601] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011310 00000028
>> >> [    7.784603] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 03: 02022322 00c20090
>> >> [    7.784605] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 00: 00001030
>> >> [    7.784608] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 01: 00000100
>> >> [    7.784610] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 02: 00002261
>> >> [    7.790697] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2
>> >> (21.10.2013).
>> >> [    7.790699] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
>> >> [    7.799009] nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies
>> >> [    7.869101] nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1360x768 fb: 0x60000, bo
>> >> ffff8800cadfe000
>> >> [    7.869168] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
>> >> [    7.870010] nouveau E[ DEVINIT][0000:01:00.0] unable to compute
>> >> acceptable pll values
>> >> [    7.870012] nouveau E[ DEVINIT][0000:01:00.0] failed pll calculation
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