https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29455
--- Comment #1 from Francisco Jerez <[email protected]> 2010-08-11 11:44:39 PDT --- (In reply to comment #0) > Nouveau is detecting and enabling TV-out, even though nothing is plugged in to > it. > > This causes the non-X terminals to only offer reduced resolution in the upper > left corner of the display, and also has a few implications for X. Overall my > problem seems very similar to bug #26800 . > > I'm afraid I can't help much in solving this problem, for my knowledge of > kernel internals is close to non-existent, and anyway PowerPC is not supported > by the Nvidia binary driver. > > I don't care much about the non-X terminals' resolution, but there is one > annoying problem in X: Firefox (or Iceweasel in Debian) only expands its > bookmarks menu within the small area in the upper left corner of the screen. > Also the background in GDM and Gnome is show in reduced resolution in that > corner, in addition to a full screen version. > > I can get rid of the problems in X by calling "xrandr --output TV-1 --off". A > permanent fix is the following simple /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "TV-1" > Option "Ignore" "True" > EndSection > > The problem occurs with Ubuntu 10.04 (Kernel 2.6.33, nouveau > 0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5) and with Debian sid (Kernel 2.6.35, nouveau > 0.16+git20100518+4b8f1a0-1). > > I keep getting messages like this in the Kernel log: > > [ 6399.294705] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Output TV-1 is running on CRTC 1 > using output B > [ 6399.498411] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 6399.730419] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 6399.934411] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 6400.126411] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > > (from Debian) > > [ 124.508970] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 150.448932] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 232.721150] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > [ 232.727489] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on TV encoder > (output 2) > [ 243.165175] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:10.0: Load detected on output B > > (from Ubuntu) Ideally you'd take an mmiotrace from the nvidia blob to fix this. I understand that it's not an option in this case -- a video BIOS dump and a register dump *might* be enough though: [1] has instructions on dumping video BIOSes, and you can use [2] after a fresh boot, before loading nouveau.ko to get a register dump. Full kernel logs may be useful too. [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/DumpingVideoBios [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~currojerez/tvdump/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
