Comment 18 for bug 653714

UPDATE: same problem with newer versions (yesterday's debian testing releases)

# uname -a
Linux majorana 3.9-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.9.6-1 i686 GNU/Linux

# aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1:1.0.8-1
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 479 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdrm-nouveau2 (>= 2.4.34), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.17), libudev0 (>= 146), xorg-video-abi-12,
         xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.12.3.901)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri (>= 7.11.1)
Provides: xorg-driver-video
Description: X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
 This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description) provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT,
 GeForce, and Quadro cards.

# lsmod|egrep 'fb|nv'
# lsmod|egrep 'nouveau'
nouveau 631975 2
mxm_wmi 12467 1 nouveau
wmi 13051 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
ttm 52594 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 27237 2 ch7006,nouveau
drm 165971 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,ch7006,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 12713 1 nouveau
i2c_core 19248 5 drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,ch7006,nouveau
video 17462 1 nouveau
button 12824 1 nouveau
#

# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
modesetting.conf-off nouveau.conf
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nouveau.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

# cat /boot/config-`uname -r`|egrep 'FRAMEBUFFER'
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION=y

# cat /boot/config-`uname -r`|egrep 'HW_CONSOLE_BINDING'
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y

# cat /proc/fb
0 nouveaufb

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