Hi Francesco, you have most probably a hardware defect. Either your vram is defunct or your gpu has a bounding problem, which is not uncommon on nv50 class laptop chips.
So I think it doesn't make sense to search a bug on the nouveau side. -- Lucas Am Freitag, den 05.11.2010, 13:59 +0100 schrieb Francesco Allertsen: > I've used the nouveau drivers for the last few months and worked very > well, since yesturday! > > Yesturday I was working with my laptop using the external monitor and > then (doing nothing special) all the video start to render something > really strange (don't know exactly how to describe it), and at the > beginning the mouse was working, after some seconds it stops moving and > everything was frozen. > > I had to reboot my machine with the power on button, and after that at > the bios I got some strange "red dots" somewhere in the screen during > the black screen. After that the lilo started and I cannot see anything > from the frame buffer (but in the background it was working great). > > I've stopped trying yesturday because I didn't have time, and this > morning I started again. > Now I'm not using anymore the -git kernel but the default Slackware > kernel (2.6.35.7), and I'm using the vesa drivers. > [...] > Now, I want to know if it's a nouveau bug or a hardware failure or what > else, and also whant to understand the "red dots" ad the beginning. > > If you need more information just let me know, and please Cc me as I'm > not subscribed to the lists. > > Thanks > > Bye > Francesco _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
