Michael Schmitz, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .
If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report: apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful. Thank you for your understanding. Helpful bug reporting tips: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- 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/549256 Title: [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] video flicker on any I/O activity with nouveau; OK with nv driver Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau System: Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 (beta 1) Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu4 (or one of its kernel module dependencies) Maybe related: #425372 Expectation: Default Xorg driver should work with no video artifacts. Observation: Bad screen flicker with default Xorg driver. Details: I installed the 10.04 beta from CD on Wednesday (incidentially, compliments for the smooth install). Already upon installation, the display did flicker badly whenever the CD was read or even the mouse moved. Flicker did already start at the initial splash screen. The system was fully responsive otherwise. On reboot post-installation, gdm came up OK but with the same flicker problems. The 'Monitors' control panel only offered the 2048x1536 resolution at 80 Hz with no other options. Tried to install and use one of the non-free nvidia drivers, this failed because the nouveau kernel module was loaded always and could not be unloaded (drm loads nouveau before framebuffer console init. as near as I can make out). With nvidia-current unable to load, the X server could not use the 'nvidia' driver. Switching xorg.conf to use the 'nv' driver results in a much better screen display (only occasional flicker) although the driver only supports 2048x1536 at 60 Hz. 1600x1200@85 Hz is useable. The main board is a dual Athlon X2 AMD M2N68-AM Plus with onboard nVidia graphics chipset. I append partial dmesg and lspci output. If there is any other information that could be of help, let me know. -- Michael Kernel message buffer excerpt: [ 4.777915] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 4.807773] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMC9] enabled at IRQ 22 [ 4.807779] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMC9] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 4.807783] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 4.809992] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: failed to evaluate _DSM: 5 [ 4.810217] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Detected an NV40 generation card (0x04c000a2) [ 4.810513] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PROM [ 4.810519] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ... BIOS signature not found [ 4.810520] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN [ 4.854556] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ... appears to be valid [ 4.854559] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: BIT BIOS found [ 4.854561] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Bios version 05.61.32.28 [ 4.854563] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: BIT table 'd' not found [ 4.854565] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 3.0 [ 4.854568] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x30 5 10 2 [ 4.854571] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 0: 0x00000000: type 0x00 idx 0 tag 0xff [ 4.854573] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 1: 0x00001131: type 0x31 idx 1 tag 0x07 [ 4.854575] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 2: 0x00000110: type 0x10 idx 1 tag 0xff [ 4.854577] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 3: 0x00000111: type 0x11 idx 1 tag 0xff [ 4.854579] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 4: 0x00000113: type 0x13 idx 1 tag 0xff [ 4.854581] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000310 00000023 [ 4.854583] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 00110204 942b0003 [ 4.854588] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xD9C9 [ 4.854591] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 0x0060081D ======= [ 4.854648] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 0x0060081D ======= [ 4.854748] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xDB17 [ 4.854749] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xDB18 [ 4.854799] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xDC9A [ 4.854803] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xDCE3 [ 4.861274] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). [ 4.865006] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 444292 kiB. [ 4.865009] [TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 448232 kiB. [ 4.865018] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 128 MiB VRAM [ 4.865912] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 64 MiB GART (aperture) [ 4.868624] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Allocating FIFO number 0 [ 4.868891] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 0 [ 4.868896] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Initial CRTC_OWNER is 0 [ 4.868901] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Saving VGA fonts [ 4.908706] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB type 4 not known [ 4.908710] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Detected a VGA connector [ 4.909936] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0) [ 5.037394] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: allocated 2048x1536 fb: 0x49000, bo f67bb400 [ 5.037515] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [ 5.037517] registered panic notifier [ 5.037523] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.15 20090420 for 0000:00:0d.0 on minor 0 [ 5.037985] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] enabled at IRQ 21 [ 5.037992] HDA Intel 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT B -> Link[LAZA] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 5.038024] HDA Intel 0000:00:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 5.039464] vga16fb: initializing [ 5.039467] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 [ 5.039574] fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device [ 5.115037] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0) [ 5.115043] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A [ 5.135352] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 256x96 lspci -vv : 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83a4 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at dd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Expansion ROM at dffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nvidiafb, nouveau ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 249c39fafc7fdc4284046750da89b61e CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002 Date: Sat Mar 27 13:39:30 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-16-generic, i686: installed nvidia-173, 173.14.22, 2.6.32-16-generic, i686: installed InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu4 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=41db8444-85be-4f70-835b-f083d9b4aed1 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_NZ.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686 dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 0708 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: M2N68-AM Plus dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0708:bd06/29/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2N68-AMPlus:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.32-16-generic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/549256/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
