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From: Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: LKML Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	opensuse factory list <opensuse-factory@opensuse.org>,
	"nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Possible 3.13-rc nouveau regression with GT 560 Ti
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:41:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C3644C.9090809@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKb7UvhBunpMC6mzjRg7Zb5gGPPYj99=2jd+Lgnr-qeXFs0w9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 31/12/13 10:36, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> System x86_64 with openSUSE 13.1.
>> X.Org version: 1.14.99.905
>>
>> openSUSE 12.2 kernels boot successfully into a graphical screen, login to
>> KDE4, etc. all normal.
>>
>> 3.13-rc kernels boot fully with X running but no graphical screen and it
>> freezes in VC with not all the startup messages displayed but I could ssh in
>> from another box to check dmesg and logs.
>>
>> Xorg.0.log which I thought I had saved did not log an error.
>>
>> dmesg said "nouveau Playlist update failed".
>>
>> Changed the GeForce GT 560 Ti for a GeForce 8600 GT and 3.13.0-rc6 is up and
>> running.
>>
>> If necessary I can go back to the GT 560 Ti to gather dmesg and Xorg log
>> information.
> Having a dmesg would be nice. One thing I can think of off-hand is
> that 3.13-rc has MSI turned on by default. You can turn it off by
> adding "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" to your kernel cmdline. If that
> doesn't help, a bisect restricted to drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau should
> show the offending commit fairly quickly.
>
>    -ilia
>
Adding "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" to the command line fixed the problem.
So it looks like commit 049ffa8ab33a63b3bff672d1a0ee6a35ad253fe8 
introduced it.
Thanks Ilia,
Regards
Sid.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31 10:14 Possible 3.13-rc nouveau regression with GT 560 Ti Sid Boyce
2013-12-31 10:36 ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-01-01  0:41   ` Sid Boyce [this message]
2014-01-01  0:55     ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-01-01  1:44       ` Sid Boyce
2014-01-01 14:04       ` Sid Boyce
2014-01-01 18:46         ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-01-02  2:36           ` Sid Boyce
2014-01-02  2:40             ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-01-02  2:59               ` Sid Boyce
2014-01-02 14:58               ` [PATCH] Fix hang problem with GeForce GT 560 Ti and nouveau in 3.13-rc Sid Boyce

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