Bug 76158

Summary:	Nouveau loses console cursor at some resolutions
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs>
Component:	Driver/nouveau	Assignee:	Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.7 (2012.06)
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Bruce Dubbs 2014-03-14 07:14:06 UTC

Using kernel 3.13.3, the cursor is not present at the command line (login, bash prompt, etc).  

From dmesg:

[    0.842547] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: NV34 (NV34)
[    0.842797] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV30
[    0.843631] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[    0.901767] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... appears to be valid
[    0.902026] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] using image from PRAMIN
[    0.902277] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] BMP version 5.29
[    0.902626] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] version 04.34.20.79.00
[    0.903039] nouveau W[  PTIMER][0000:01:00.0] unknown input clock freq
[    0.903296] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: DDR1
[    0.903545] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 64 MiB
[    0.903794] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0]    ZCOMP: 0 tags
[    0.906062] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] --:   
[    0.906362] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 5055574 kiB
[    0.906612] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
[    0.906863] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[    0.907125] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[    0.907384] nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 63 MiB
[    0.907630] nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 128 MiB
[    0.907877] nouveau  [     DRM] BMP version 5.41
[    0.908134] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 2.2
[    0.908382] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000300 000088b8
[    0.908631] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 02010310 000088b8
[    0.908880] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 01000302 00000000
[    0.909138] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 03: 04010312 00000000
[    0.909747] nouveau  [     DRM] Saving VGA fonts
[    0.984655] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[    0.984919] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[    0.985212] nouveau  [     DRM] 0xB61E: Parsing digital output script table
[    1.035507] nouveau  [     DRM] 0xB70B: Parsing digital output script table
[    1.086941] nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies

[    1.120507] nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1366x768 fb: 0x9000, bo ffff8802ab977c00
[    1.121096] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device

When passing video=640x480 or 1024x768, everything is fine, but not at the monitor's native resolution of 1366x768.  There the cursor is invisible.

The cursor returns if the terminal is reset with 'echo -e \\033c', but only until the next command is issued.  Then the cursor disappears again.

Inside Xorg 7.7, everything is fine.

Comment 1 Martin Peres 2019-12-04 08:44:36 UTC

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