[Nouveau] Strange monitor behavior on forced DVI-D output

wolle321 at freenet.de wolle321 at freenet.de
Fri Sep 7 20:11:16 UTC 2018


Hello , 

I'm new here but I hope I can describe my problem exactly.

I'm trying to get my DVI-Monitor to work with nouveau. The monitor is 
automatically reported as not connected. LVDS is detected. Forcing it
on Xorg.conf didn't work, KMS does:

video=DVI-D-1:1920x1200e video=LVDS-1:d 

X started with 1024x768, but could switch by xrandr to 1920x1200.

The viewed picture now is 1920x1200 , but the Monitor runs on 960x1200,
so that it looks very pixelated. (But there is no panning)

Tried to add another (cvt calculated) modeline (1920x1200_60.00) with
xrandr, but didnt help:


Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1920x1200     60.00  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   848x480       60.00  
   640x480       59.94  
   1920x1200_60.00  59.88* 

dmesg:
...
[    1.526099] fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA
[    1.526125] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[    1.526265] scsi host0: ahci
[    1.526284] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA G92 (092f00a2)
[    1.531073] scsi host1: ahci
[    1.535016] scsi host2: ahci
[    1.541021] scsi host3: ahci
[    1.548031] scsi host4: ahci
[    1.553014] scsi host5: ahci
[    1.553064] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048 at 0xdb325000 port 0xdb325100 irq 29
[    1.553067] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048 at 0xdb325000 port 0xdb325180 irq 29
[    1.553068] ata3: DUMMY
[    1.553070] ata4: DUMMY
[    1.553073] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048 at 0xdb325000 port 0xdb325300 irq 29
[    1.553076] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048 at 0xdb325000 port 0xdb325380 irq 29
[    1.553513] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
[    1.590043] firewire_ohci 0000:86:06.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 4 IT contexts, quirks 0x11
[    1.678230] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 62.92.6e.00.10
[    1.678547] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: mxm: BIOS version 2.0
[    1.680769] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: mxm: unmatched output device 0103010201010100
[    1.701487] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB GDDR3
[    1.711344] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 00:24:81:62:88:f7
[    1.711351] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[    1.711374] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: MAC: 7, PHY: 8, PBA No: 1052FF-0FF
[    1.712279] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 enp0s25: renamed from eth0
[    1.775146] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 4066038 kiB
[    1.775148] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
[    1.775150] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[    1.775159] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[    1.775171] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
[    1.775173] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    1.775177] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    1.775179] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[    1.775182] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000323 00010034
[    1.775185] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02011312 00020030
[    1.775187] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02022312 00020020
[    1.775190] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 05: 02034300 00000028
[    1.775192] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00000040
[    1.775194] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00001131
[    1.775196] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00002231
[    1.775198] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 03: 00110346
[    1.775200] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 04: 00000400
[    1.775202] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 05: 00000510
[    1.775203] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 06: 00000511
[    1.775205] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 07: 00000513
[    1.775207] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 08: 00002631
[    1.775209] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 09: 00001731
[    1.775211] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 10: 00002831
[    1.775213] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 11: 00110946
[    1.775215] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 12: 00000a00
[    1.775217] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 13: 00000b10
[    1.775219] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 14: 00000b11
[    1.775221] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 15: 00000b13
[    1.776874] [drm] forcing LVDS-1 connector off
[    1.776924] [drm] forcing DVI-D-1 connector on
[    1.777030] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[    1.777031] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[    1.779020] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using CRYPT for buffer copies
[    1.791526] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1200 fb: 0x70000, bo         (ptrval)
[    1.792143] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[    1.792399] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
[    1.792449] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[    1.794020] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[    1.797047] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
...
[   37.435414] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv84_xuc00f failed with error -2
[   37.435418] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vp: unable to load firmware nouveau/nv84_xuc00f
[   37.435420] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vp: init failed, -2

Xorg.0.log:
...

[     7.646] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[     7.646] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 1
[     7.646] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[     7.646] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[     7.646] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[     7.646] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[     7.646] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[     7.648] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[     7.649] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.649] 	compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 1.0.15
[     7.649] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     7.649] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.649] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[     7.650] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[     7.650] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.650] 	compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 1.19.6
[     7.650] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     7.650] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.650] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[     7.650] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[     7.650] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.650] 	compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 0.4.4
[     7.650] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     7.650] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.650] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[     7.650] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[     7.650] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.650] 	compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 2.3.4
[     7.650] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     7.650] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.650] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date:   Fri Apr 21 14:41:17 2017 -0400
[     7.650] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[     7.650] 	RIVA TNT        (NV04)
[     7.650] 	RIVA TNT2       (NV05)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 256     (NV10)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 2       (NV11, NV15)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 4MX     (NV17, NV18)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 3       (NV20)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 4Ti     (NV25, NV28)
[     7.650] 	GeForce FX      (NV3x)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 6       (NV4x)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 7       (G7x)
[     7.650] 	GeForce 8       (G8x)
[     7.650] 	GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
[     7.650] 	GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
[     7.650] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[     7.651] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[     7.651] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[     7.670] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.3.1
[     7.670] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[     7.670] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[     7.670] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[     7.670] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[     7.670] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[     7.670] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.670] 	compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 0.0.2
[     7.670] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.670] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[     7.670] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[     7.670] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[     7.670] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[     7.670] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV92"
[     7.670] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
	"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): RGB weight 888
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Using HW cursor
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Allowed maximum DRI level 2.
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): GLX sync to VBlank enabled.
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping enabled
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Swap limit set to 1 [Max allowed 2]
[     7.670] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping synced to vblank by kernel.
[     7.670] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Initializing outputs ...
[     7.670] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output LVDS-1 has no monitor section
[     7.670] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-D-1 has no monitor section
[     7.672] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-D-2 has no monitor section
[     7.690] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output VGA-1 has no monitor section
[     7.690] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 4 crtcs needed for screen.
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Allocated crtc nr. 0 to this screen.
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Allocated crtc nr. 1 to this screen.
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output LVDS-1
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-D-1
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing probed modes for output DVI-D-1
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1200"x60.0  193.15  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242 -hsync +vsync (74.5 kHz)
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0   33.75  848 864 976 1088  480 486 494 517 +hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz e)
[     7.693] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[     7.699] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-D-2
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output VGA-1
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output LVDS-1 disconnected
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-D-1 connected
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-D-2 disconnected
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output VGA-1 disconnected
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-D-1 using initial mode 1024x768 +0+0
[     7.720] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[     7.720] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 0)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "848x480": 33.8 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0   33.75  848 864 976 1088  480 486 494 517 +hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz e)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Driver mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.5 kHz, 59.9 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[     7.720] (**) NOUVEAU(0):  Mode "1920x1200": 193.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 74.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
[     7.720] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1200"x60.0  193.15  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242 -hsync +vsync (74.5 kHz)
[     7.720] (==) NOUVEAU(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[     7.720] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[     7.720] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[     7.720] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[     7.723] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.723] 	compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 1.0.0
[     7.723] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[     7.723] (II) Loading sub module "shadowfb"
[     7.723] (II) LoadModule: "shadowfb"
[     7.723] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadowfb.so
[     7.723] (II) Module shadowfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.723] 	compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 1.0.0
[     7.723] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
...
[     7.723] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[     7.728] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Channel setup complete.
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Hardware support for Present enabled
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: nouveau
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nouveau
[     7.730] (II) Loading sub module "exa"
[     7.730] (II) LoadModule: "exa"
[     7.730] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so
[     7.730] (II) Module exa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     7.730] 	compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 2.6.0
[     7.730] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[     7.730] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
[     7.730] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
[     7.730] (II)         Solid
[     7.730] (II)         Copy
[     7.730] (II)         Composite (RENDER acceleration)
[     7.730] (II)         UploadToScreen
[     7.730] (II)         DownloadFromScreen
[     7.730] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Backing store enabled
[     7.730] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Silken mouse enabled
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Associated with Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video.
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Extension initialized.
[     7.730] (==) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS enabled
[     7.730] (II) NOUVEAU(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
...
[     7.831] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized nouveau
[     7.831] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0
[     7.834] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called.
[     7.880] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203
[     7.880] resize called 1024 768

Could you tell me, how to get the monitor running with 1920x1200, not 960x1200(what ist the half x of 1920)?

Nb.:propietary nvidi-adriver v340 works with LVDS and DVI-D-1, (but chrashes after a while)

Thank you a lot, Wolfgang


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