| Summary: | [NV4B] NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP graphics card will not display any text characters on VIA Technologies Apollo MVP3-based mainboard | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | mypersonalmailbox1 |
| Component: | Driver/nouveau | Assignee: | Nouveau Project <nouveau> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| URL: | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu/+bug/1161596 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | |||
|
Description
mypersonalmailbox1
2013-04-04 05:48:05 UTC
Created attachment 77400 [details]
FIC VA-503+ mainboard with 32 MB AGP aperture size
I set AGP aperture size to 32 MB in the BIOS setup of FIC VA-503+ mainboard.
Created attachment 77401 [details]
FIC VA-503+ mainboard with 256 MB AGP aperture size
I set AGP aperture size to 256 MB in the BIOS setup of FIC VA-503+ mainboard.
Created attachment 77402 [details]
FIC VA-503+ mainboard with 32 MB AGP aperture size
I set the AGP aperture size to 32 MB in the BIOS setup of FIC VA-503+ mainboard.
Created attachment 77403 [details]
FIC VA-503+ mainboard with 256 MB AGP aperture size
I set the AGP aperture size to 256 MB in the BIOS setup of FIC VA-503+ mainboard.
Can you try this with an upstream kernel, e.g. 3.10 or the kernel at nouveau/master? (Note that 3.11-rc1 - 3.11-rc6 will crash on load for you, -rc7 should be fine when it comes out.) It's impossible to tell what's in those LTS kernels, so they're basically useless for reporting bugs to upstream about. If building your own kernel isn't an option, you should file this but with Ubuntu. (In reply to Comment #5) Hi, Please note that FIC VA-503+ mainboard is for Socket 7 platform. I believe Linux kernel since 3.0 no longer support processors without CMOV instructions. Hence, this is not really an option in this case. An alternative for me will be to use FIC KA-6110 mainboard (VIA Technologies Apollo Pro133 chipset) since it exhibits the identical bug. This is for Intel Slot 1 platform so the processor supports CMOV instructions and PAE. I have ran Ubuntu 12.04/Xubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit with KA-6110 mainboard, and it still has the exact same buggy behavior and same workaround (i.e., set AGP aperture size to 32 MB or less). It appears that MVP3 chipset's AGP and Apollo Pro 133 chispet's AGP are very similar (i.e., both support AGP 1X/2X modes). I have not tried this with Apollo Pro133A chipset or other VIA Technologies chipsets, but I will try to make some time to do some testing. Also, please note that when I use AGP Aperture Size of 256 MB on Intel SE440BX-2 mainboard with this same BFG Technologies GeForce 7300 GT AGP graphics card, it will crash during boot, but I can boot normally with the AGP Aperture Size of 64 MB. SE440BX-2 mainboard has only 2 AGP Aperture Size selections in the BIOS setup: 64 MB or 256 MB. If you have time, please take a look at Bug #56340 as well. Regards, fpgahardwareengineer (In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to Comment #5) > > Hi, > > Please note that FIC VA-503+ mainboard is for Socket 7 platform. > I believe Linux kernel since 3.0 no longer support processors without CMOV > instructions. That's most definitely not the case. Linux did drop 386 support semi-recently, but 486+ should work fine, which includes all AMD K5+ processors (and probably their 486 clones as well). It could be that the ubuntu/whatever distro builds have done this, but not Linux as a whole. If you build your own kernel as I had recommended, you should be fine. No re-test in a month, closing as invalid. Chances are that the AGP situation is a hardware issue rather than a nouveau driver one, but so much has changed in the nouveau driver since that ancient kernel that it's hard to tell. |
Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.