Created attachment 45150 [details] The used config file for the creation of the kernel. Hello the machine is a Toshiba Satellite 5100-S201 with a nVidia GeForce4 440 Go 10de:0174 (rev a3) I'm running the kernel 2.6.38 with kms enabled. When I start the pc it boots normal for one or two seconds and I can see the typical lines, but then the screen freezes and it starts to show strange artifacts. They are almost always different sometimes horizontal bars in black in white. Sometimes the screen fades slowly to black, sometimes to bright white. In the background the pc boots normal and I can ssh into the box. When I add nouveau.modeset=0 to the boot parameters the systems boots without any artifacts. But I cannot start the xserver. When I add another monitor to the external vga connector. The internal monitor stays black and the external monitor displays the content just fine and I can also launch the xserver.
Created attachment 45151 [details] A part from the kernel messages when no external monitor is connected upon boot.
Created attachment 45152 [details] A part from the kernel messages when an external monitor is connected upon boot.
Please excuse my bad english, I should already be spleeping.
It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty good that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot. (Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your distro's bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report. In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ for what we need to see, and re-open this one. Thanks, The Nouveau Team
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