Bug 16450

Summary: Powerbook G4 12" (NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200]) freezes on X restart - Fedora 9
Product: xorg Reporter: Alex Kanavin <ak>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Alex Kanavin 2008-06-20 17:28:55 UTC
Created attachment 17273 [details]
nv X log

I have tried the nouveau driver shipped with Fedora 9 (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.10-2.20080408git0991281.fc9.ppc) on my Powerobook G4 12" (NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200]). X server starts up fine first time, but the machine locks up during a restart (or during boot when transitioning between rhgb and gdm). I have attached the X logs for the nv and nouveau drivers.
Comment 1 Alex Kanavin 2008-06-20 17:29:24 UTC
Created attachment 17274 [details]
nouveau X log
Comment 2 Stuart Bennett 2008-06-25 11:47:29 UTC
Please try with newer code -- http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau describes how to acquire and build from git.
Comment 3 Danny 2008-06-26 00:06:26 UTC
almost certainly due to using nvidiafb (or rivafb). Boot with video=ofonly.

danny
Comment 4 Alex Kanavin 2008-07-17 15:54:25 UTC
Yeah, video=ofonly has fixed the problem. However, the old nv dirver works fine with nvidiafb, so I believe nouveau should as well.
Comment 5 Stephane Marchesin 2008-07-17 15:59:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Yeah, video=ofonly has fixed the problem. However, the old nv dirver works fine
> with nvidiafb, so I believe nouveau should as well.
> 

Actually, no. We don't want to support nvidiafb because it messes too far with the card state. So until we have a nouveaufb replacement, please use offb.

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