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#1 2010-02-18 00:36:32

ssl6
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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
Registered: 2007-08-30
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Nouveau issues

I just rebooted my system, for the first time in a few days. i was having some performance issues with my desktop, so i thought i'd try out the nouveau git packages, and on reboot, X failed to load. the error in the xorg log, was something to the effect of no drm device found when probing the bus. but lspci still listed the card. so i reinstalled the nouveau driver from the repo that was running previously, and same result

my card is an Asus 8800GT, wondering if anyone else has had issues with the 8000 series cards with recent updates. maybe there's another package that botched it on me somewhere between the last few days?

I also tried running with just the nv driver, and get nothing but garbled juibberish on the screen. so i'm wondering if during that reboot my card died, or if the nv driver just isn't compatible with my card


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#2 2010-02-18 02:14:19

davidgurvich
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Re: Nouveau issues

Do you have the firmware package installed?  I don't believe that is automatically added when you use nouveau.

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#3 2010-02-18 02:15:36

ataraxia
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Re: Nouveau issues

It might be this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18378 Try downgrading libdrm to 2.4.17 .

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#4 2010-02-18 04:06:19

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Re: Nouveau issues

dear god i hope that's it..... it looks like it might be


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#5 2010-02-18 19:47:05

hramat
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From: Baden, CH
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Re: Nouveau issues

Does anyone have previous package libdrm-2.4.17-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz ?

I could only find libdrm-2.4.17-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz on
http://se-jpg-01.files.syntaxerror.nu/p … g/os/i686/

got cleaned cache few days ago and the package in not there anymore

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#6 2010-02-18 20:08:57

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Re: Nouveau issues

In my case downgrading to libdrm-2.4.17-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz worked

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#7 2010-02-20 02:42:34

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
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Re: Nouveau issues

it worked for me. the garbled screen when trying to use the nv driver was really looking like a hardware issue though at first. everything's fine though


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#8 2010-02-20 04:11:10

ataraxia
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Re: Nouveau issues

The bug I opened on this was fixed by the libdrm 2.4.18-2 update, which patches out the particular changes that broke us here, while giving us the rest of the 2.4.18 changes.

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