Error 12 = -ENOMEM, so it looks like too much memory is used by unity. Since you only have 64mb video memory that's probably the limiting factor. If it your card doesn't have dedicated memory, could you try to increase the amount of memory in the bios?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1121715 Title: Unity corruption with nouveau driver on GeForce 7025 Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have a problem with Unity and compiz with nouveau driver on my device. Motherboard is Biostar TF7025-M2 with onboard GPU Nvidia GeForce 7025 with latest BIOS. By default noveau loads and DRM is enabled. But then I try to use Unity, screen look corrupted, or even Ubuntu totally hangs up. part of dmesg: dmesg | grep nouveau [ 22.345670] nouveau 0000:00:12.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 22.347138] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:12.0] BOOT0 : 0x067000a1 [ 22.347146] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:12.0] Chipset: C67 (NV67) [ 22.347148] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:12.0] Family : NV40 [ 22.348181] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:12.0] checking PRAMIN for image... [ 22.386537] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:12.0] ... appears to be valid [ 22.386540] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:12.0] using image from PRAMIN [ 22.386721] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:12.0] BIT signature found [ 22.386725] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:12.0] version 05.67.32.25.02 [ 22.420491] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:12.0] RAM type: unknown [ 22.420499] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:12.0] RAM size: 64 MiB [ 22.420501] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:12.0] ZCOMP: 0 tags [ 22.458064] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 61 MiB [ 22.458071] nouveau [ DRM] GART: 512 MiB [ 22.458077] nouveau [ DRM] BIT BIOS found [ 22.458081] nouveau [ DRM] Bios version 05.67.32.25 [ 22.458085] nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 1.1 [ 22.458087] nouveau W[ DRM] TMDS table script pointers not stubbed [ 22.458090] nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 3.0 [ 22.458093] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000310 00000023 [ 22.458096] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 04031322 00000080 [ 22.458100] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 0000 [ 22.458103] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 1161 [ 22.458109] nouveau E[ DRM] Pointer to flat panel table invalid [ 22.459924] nouveau [ DRM] 0xCFF4: Parsing digital output script table [ 22.512774] nouveau [ DRM] 1 available performance level(s) [ 22.512784] nouveau [ DRM] 0: core 425MHz shader 425MHz fanspeed 100% [ 22.512787] nouveau [ DRM] c: core 39MHz [ 22.514285] nouveau [ DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies [ 22.565244] nouveau [ DRM] allocated 1440x900 fb: 0x9000, bo ffff880137f9d800 [ 22.565651] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device [ 22.578113] nouveau 0000:00:12.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [ 22.578118] nouveau 0000:00:12.0: registered panic notifier [ 22.578138] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.0 20120801 for 0000:00:12.0 on minor 0 [ 81.967086] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 81.967095] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 81.967269] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 82.756376] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 82.756386] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 82.756432] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 82.981106] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 82.981118] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 82.981182] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 83.361035] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 83.361044] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 83.361086] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 83.447857] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:00:12.0] ERROR nsource: (unknown bits 0x00400000) nstatus: PROTECTION_FAULT [ 83.447872] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:00:12.0] ch 3 [0x00056000] subc 7 class 0x4497 mthd 0x1a10 data 0x0000aae4 [ 84.369995] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 84.370004] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 84.370033] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 85.801215] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 85.801225] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 85.801256] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 86.102763] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 86.102771] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 86.102797] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 86.256874] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 86.256884] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 86.258379] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 86.654576] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 86.654585] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 86.654626] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 87.658859] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 87.658869] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 87.658894] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 [ 87.823557] nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate [ 87.823575] nouveau E[ DRM] validate vram_list [ 87.823641] nouveau E[ DRM] validate: -12 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-5.10-generic 3.8.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-5-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Mon Feb 11 09:00:42 2013 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: raring DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation C68 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:053e] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:1406] InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-09 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130208) Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: BIOSTAR Group N68SA-M2T MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-5-generic root=UUID=ead0d728-086e-4753-848b-b12070ac5ac3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 09/16/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG dmi.board.name: N68SA-M2T dmi.board.vendor: BIOSTAR Group dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: BIOSTAR Group dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/16/2008:svnBIOSTARGroup:pnN68SA-M2T:pvr5.0:rvnBIOSTARGroup:rnN68SA-M2T:rvr1.0:cvnBIOSTARGroup:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: N68SA-M2T dmi.product.version: 5.0 dmi.sys.vendor: BIOSTAR Group version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.02.08-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.42-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.2-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.2-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.0-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.6-0ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Tue Jan 1 00:03:42 2008 xserver.configfile: default xserver.devices: input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7 input Sleep Button KEYBOARD, id 8 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9 input ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse MOUSE, id 10 xserver.errors: Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu1 xserver.video_driver: nouveau To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1121715/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

