Because a video tells more than a thousand words; <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitvtCMynLw> This happens in the console and in X.org.
Would anyone care to comment on where to start poking or what to enable to see any debug logging when this happens?
Created attachment 71972 [details] Kernel log (dmesg)
Created attachment 71973 [details] VBIOS G4 Snowball NVIDIA NV17 GeForce4 440 Go
Created attachment 71974 [details] Dmesg of Linux 3.6.6
Created attachment 71979 [details] dmesg with nouveau.debug=debug
Created attachment 71981 [details] dmesg with trace, as requested
Created attachment 71982 [details] Dmesg Trace + DRM debug
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.9-rc1: commit 89e728ce07630a5584875b8a811a8bd02844b1d3 Author: Stefan de Konink <stefan@konink.de> Date: Sat Dec 22 18:04:37 2012 +0100 drm/nouveau: Fix DPMS 1 on G4 Snowball, from snow white to coal black.
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