X.Org X server --Nvidia (Nouveau) display driver fails xrandr_cycle test

[Josy]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

This is a follow-up of my Bug #460510.

I have attached the file ErrorLogs.tar.gz which contains:
lspci -vvnn
xorg.conf
Xorg.0.log

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxCommand: xrandr_cycle
CheckboxData:
 Running the xrandr_cycle test predictable fails. When I run the test the xserver seems to crash and I am back at the Ubuntu login screen.
 When loging back in into Ubuntu again and running the test to switch to vt or switch manually to vt (ctrl-alt-f1), I have sometimes seen a scrambled screen with mainly beige color. When having a scrambled screen, leaving it with ctrl-alt-f7 did not work, however surprisingly leaving back to the deskto worked with ctrl-alt-f9. So far I have not found a way to predicably reproduce making the switch to vt fail.
CheckboxDescription:
 Click Test to cycle through the detected video modes for your system.

 Did the screen appear to be working for each mode?
CheckboxSubmission: b28136f47758b3124ca343eefac9b5ee
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
CheckboxTest: xrandr_cycle
Date: Wed Oct 28 23:45:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader/Writer (Internal/External)
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:1204 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 930c
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c03f Logitech, Inc. UltraX Optical Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Package: x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2ubuntu3
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=11ca61e1-ab3c-4c23-bf88-390f3edd6c62 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: x11-xserver-utils
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XorgConf:
 Section "Device"
  Identifier "Configured Video Device"
  Driver "nouveau"
 EndSection
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2143): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2227): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2199): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
dmi.bios.date: 08/09/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F5
dmi.board.name: GA-M55PLUS-S3G
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF5:bd08/09/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-M55PLUS-S3G:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Josy (josy1)]

I have tested all screen resolutions manually using ubuntu's display configuration.

Only the following can be activated successfully:
1680 x 1050 16:10
1280 x 1024 5:4
832 x 624 4:3
640 x 480 4:3

All others either fail with going back to login screen or end up with a new picture with the newly configured resolution, however the screen is not built up completely and no longer updated.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This looks like a good amount of information. Would you be interested
in taking it upstream to the xorg/nouveau component of
bugs.freedesktop.org?

I note that you're not using kernel modesetting - upstream is pretty
much abandoning the usermode modesetting codepath, so it would be useful
to try with KMS enabled. One way that you can do this is to add
"nouveau.modeset=1" to your kernel boot parameters from the grub prompt.

Also, I'll be uploading a new snapshot of nouveau to the xorg-edgers PPA
in the near future, and you could test with that.

[Josy (josy1)]

As requested I have created a follow-up bug Bug #473409 with kms activated.
Please note that besides the resolutions above, the xrandr_cycle test was fine for all resolutions.
Maybe the failing resolutions have something to do with not configured kms settigs.

Thus for that purpose I'd keep this bug open too.

[Josy (josy1)]

@Chris Halse Rogers:
If you like me to test your "new snapshot of nouveau to the xorg-edgers PPA", please tell me:
- where to find it
- how to install it
and
- how to get rid of it in case I get trouble

Thanks.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

How to get it:
"""
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/nouveau
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
"""

To remove:
delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xorg-edgers-nouveau.list
Check out "apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" and "apt-cache
policy nouveau-kernel-source", and then install the versions from Karmic
(eg: sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau=1:0.0.10~git
[phone]+569a17a-0ubuntu1)

[Josy (josy1)]

@Chris:
Please see follow-up bug #474787 with repository ppa:xorg-edgers/nouveau and kms.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for testing this. We're only going to be shipping the KMS version of nouveau going forward.