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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

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[solved] Nouveau kms - early mode

I'm running nouveau-drm from testing and "late" kms is working fine.

I can't get "early" kms mode in mkinitcpio to work. I've added "nouveau" and tried also to add all depending modules in the mkinitcpio.conf without luck. I see it gets loaded in the initrd without any eror message but doesn't change the resolution. And then later it also fails to change the resolution when late mode should start.

from var/log/everything:

failed:

Oct  3 10:05:19 workstation64 kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Oct  3 10:05:19 workstation64 kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Oct  3 10:05:19 workstation64 kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Oct  3 10:05:19 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV40 generation card (0x044100a2)
Oct  3 10:05:19 workstation64 kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.15 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

working late mode

Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... appears to be valid
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BIT BIOS found
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Bios version 05.44.02.15
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 3.0
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000300 00000028
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02010310 00000028
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 01000302 00000000
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 04010312 00000000
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 4: 020203f1 0080c033
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xEC17
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xEEEC
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xF324
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xF481
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xF52F
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 4092542 kiB.
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB.
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 0
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 0
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Initial CRTC_OWNER is 0
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected a DVI-I connector
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected a DVI-I connector
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected a TV connector
Oct  3 10:07:43 workstation64 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Saving VGA fonts

Any idea? Is early mode working for you?

Last edited by AndyRTR (2009-10-03 08:25:16)

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: [solved] Nouveau kms - early mode

my bad: I had missed to add the modprobe.conf file to mkinitcpio.conf.

tyr0

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 152

Re: [solved] Nouveau kms - early mode

AndyRTR, is the kernel bug (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23847) fixed in the new package in testing? What graphic card do you use? I´ll give it a try again with my GF6600.

Last edited by tyr0 (2009-10-08 18:23:25)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [solved] Nouveau kms - early mode

my bad: I had missed to add the modprobe.conf file to mkinitcpio.conf.

hehe. i did the same thing yesterday

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: [solved] Nouveau kms - early mode

AndyRTR, is the kernel bug (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23847) fixed in the new package in testing? What graphic card do you use? I´ll give it a try again with my GF6600.

Yes it's fixed and new packages from today have just hit the testing repo. Good luck.