weird cursor drawing, double greeter grid, wserver crashes

[Bib]

Even with current edgers-xorg and kernel 3.4.999 20120526 from ubuntu ppa because no non-pae kernel available in edgers ppa;
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50403

Can't restart x with crtlAltPtScnK, popup stating systems running low-graphics mode, not detected correctly video/mouse/keyboard: configure yourself, but no keybord/mouse available to click-> hard reboot
When running, the dynamic images on screen are something like parsed with white pixels, and the cursor suffers "echo" in its drawing
That in ubuntu-classic no-effects, same in unity
Latest machine and video BIOSes
nvidia-96 not allowed to install as a workaround because of a xorg ABI dependancy thing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: ac665960bd595003e408fa25f6066d31
CheckboxSystem: 331fbefb4b1f6727f4a8261fee7507c9
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,shift,vpswitch,move,resize,place,snap,regex,imgpng,grid,mousepoll,gnomecompat,animation,workarounds,fade,cube,expo,scale]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Wed May 30 16:11:40 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-05-23 14:17:00,472 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] [10de:0286] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0179]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude D800
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=UUID=53f4ad58-f05f-4972-b816-4105751cba54 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-23 (7 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/30/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0T1957
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA13:bd06/30/2005:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnLatitudeD800:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rn0T1957:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D800
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Glenn Brumfield (brumfield-glenn)]

Affects me too.

Dell Latitude D800 notebook with: 1.4 Ghz Pentium-M, nVidia Geforce4 4200 AGP 8x [NV28]

Currently running Lubuntu 12.04 (for the non-PAE kernel) using the nvidia-96 driver. I had to downgrade xorg to Oneiric's version to be able to install run nvidia-96.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966336&page=3
Post #30

Nouveau on this machine is unusable for much beyond getting through an installation.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Bib, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]