That probably is the case - I tried live system on a desktop with a Quadro 600 card and it works just fine. It seems something is bothering the nouveau driver in the older cards.
Chavdar On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 16:45 John D. Baker <jdba...@mylinuxisp.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:34:55 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The resulting system works also fine, with the unfortunate exception > > that the screen stays dark after the framebuffer line in the dmesg is > > seen, when it has to switch to high resolution mode during bootstrap. > > The boot completes without a problem, I am able to ssh to the laptop > > and monitor what is going on, I can also blindly logon the laptop's > > console and run 'startx', which I see in the ssh window from elsewhere > > is running correctly. > > I recently got to try a NetBSD-8.99.1 live-USB image on a > similarly-equipped machine with the same results: > > NetBSD 8.99.1 (GENERIC) #177: Fri Jul 21 10:42:58 CDT 2017 > sy...@yggdrasil.technoskunk.fur > :/r0/build/current/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > total memory = 16319 MB > avail memory = 15823 MB > [...] > ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1: AMD Family15h Root Port (rev. 0x00) > ppb0: PCI Express capability version 2 <Root Port of PCI-E Root Complex> > x16 @ 8.0GT/s > ppb0: link is x16 @ 2.5GT/s > pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 > nouveau0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA product 0404 (rev. 0xa1) > drm kern info: nouveau [ DEVICE][nouveau0] BOOT0 : 0x084400a2 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DEVICE][nouveau0] Chipset: G84 (NV84) > drm kern info: nouveau [ DEVICE][nouveau0] Family : NV50 > drm kern info: nouveau [ VBIOS][nouveau0] checking PRAMIN for image... > drm kern info: nouveau [ VBIOS][nouveau0] ... appears to be valid > drm kern info: nouveau [ VBIOS][nouveau0] using image from PRAMIN > drm kern info: nouveau [ VBIOS][nouveau0] BIT signature found > drm kern info: nouveau [ VBIOS][nouveau0] version 60.84.68.00.19 > drm kern info: nouveau [ PMC][nouveau0] MSI interrupts enabled > nouveau0: interrupting at msi0 vec 0 (nouveau) > drm kern info: nouveau [ PFB][nouveau0] RAM type: DDR2 > drm kern info: nouveau [ PFB][nouveau0] RAM size: 512 MiB > drm kern info: nouveau [ PFB][nouveau0] ZCOMP: 946 tags > drm kern info: nouveau [ VOLT][nouveau0] GPU voltage: 1320000uv > drm kern info: nouveau [ PTHERM][nouveau0] FAN control: PWM > drm kern info: nouveau [ PTHERM][nouveau0] fan management: automatic > drm kern info: nouveau [ PTHERM][nouveau0] internal sensor: yes > drm kern info: nouveau [ CLK][nouveau0] 20: core 459 MHz shader 918 > MHz memory 266 MHz > drm kern info: nouveau [ CLK][nouveau0] --: core 459 MHz shader 918 > MHz memory 265 MHz > Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 5745252 kiB > Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 512 MiB > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 2.0 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 4.0 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000300 00000028 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 02011312 00000030 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011310 00000028 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 03: 010223f1 00c0c080 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 1030 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 2130 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 0210 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 03: 0211 > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 04: 0213 > drm kern warning: nouveau W[ DRM] failed to create encoder 0/1/0: -19 > drm kern warning: nouveau W[ DRM] TV-1 has no encoders, removing > drm: Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). > drm: Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. > drm kern info: nouveau [ DRM] MM: using CRYPT for buffer copies > nouveaufb0 at nouveau0 > nouveau0: info: registered panic notifier > wsdisplay0 at nouveaufb0 kbdmux 1 > [...] > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] INVALID_STATE [UNK0B] chid 1 > mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] Base 0: > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0084: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0088: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x008c: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0090: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0094: 0x00000000 -> > 0xcafe0000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00a0: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00a4: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00c0: 0x00000000 -> > 0x01000003 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00c4: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00c8: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00cc: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00e0: 0x00000000 -> > 0x40000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00e4: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00e8: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00ec: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x00fc: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0100: 0xfffe0000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0104: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0110: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0114: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] Base 0 - Image 0: > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0800: 0x00000000 -> > 0x00000600 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0804: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0808: 0x00000000 -> > 0x03840640 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x080c: 0x00000000 -> > 0x00101900 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0810: 0x0000e900 -> > 0x0000cf00 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] Base 0 - Image 1: > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0c00: 0x00000000 -> > 0x00000600 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0c04: 0x00000000 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0c08: 0x00000000 -> > 0x03840640 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0c0c: 0x00000000 -> > 0x00101900 > drm kern error: nouveau E[ PDISP][nouveau0] 0x0c10: 0x0000e900 -> > 0x0000cf00[...] > > This is a system my brother is building for himself. Not all of the > components have arrived yet, so he stuck in an old NVidia card he had > lying around. The above is with that card. The final configuration > will have a more recent-production NVidia graphics card. > > -- > |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X > |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD > | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! > |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645 > >
