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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package

  1. Bug #653714
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 653714

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In , R-ductor (r-ductor) wrote :

Created attachment 66889
dmesg output

In a newly installed debian wheezy (no non-free nvidia drivers around) nouveau gives distorted graphics with a Geforce 4200Go (Dell inspiron 8500), see png attached. The mouse pointer is distorted and the desktop difficultly usable.

This bug has been reported in debian
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686611
and might be related to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50403

The files I attach refer to

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/98-me
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

and no other tricks, but I've also tried:

1) boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 in kernel line
   TTY and X badly screwed up

2) boot with nouveau.nofbaccel=1 in kernel line
   TTY badly screwed up, X distorted as in the plain case

3) boot with Option "NoAccel" "On"
X distorted

4) Booted with experimenta kernel
linux-image-3.5-trunk-686-pae
Version: 3.5.2-1~experimental.1
black TTY and black X so I cannot document this.

-----Kernel version
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.2.0-3-686-pae (Debian 3.2.23-1) (<email address hidden>) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-8) ) #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 03:50:34 UTC 2012

-----Nouveau version
# aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1:1.0.1-3
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 483 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.17), libudev0 (>= 146), xorg-video-abi-12, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.11.99.901)
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.

 This package provides 2D support including EXA acceleration, Xv and RandR. 3D functionality is provided by the
 libgl1-mesa-dri package.

 This package is built from the FreeDesktop.org xf86-video-nouveau driver.
Homepage: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/