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[moving to a separate sub-thread]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:18:08AM +0000, WillyPillow wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 11:52 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 05:19:04PM +0000, WillyPillow wrote:
> > >     
> 
> > > -   Tried to fix a nouveau-related bug (currently to no avail, 
> > > unfortunately).
> > >     (Not directly related to Qubes, but this is relevant to my use case 
> > > and AFAIK
> > >     the proprietary drivers do not really work on Qubes.)
> > >     
> 
> > 
> 
> > I'd recommend trying newer kernel, if you haven't already:
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/newer-hardware-troubleshooting/
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm currently running kernel-latest (5.5.7), as the default kernel would 
> crash if I connected external displays.

Try the one from current-testing repository (5.6.x already there). I do
have one laptop that was totally unusable with nouveau before and
updating to 5.6.11 fixed it.

> The issue I am running into is 
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99501>.
> I tend to use an external display rotated vertically. But as the display 
> outputs on my laptop are wired to the dGPU, reverse PRIME is needed, hence 
> the issues.
> 
> I tried poking around the nouveau DDX source code, with no success.
> Interestingly, running xorg-x11-drv-nouveau from fc31 seems to result in a 
> slightly less distorted screen, at least at first glance.
> 
> My current workaround is to either use the display without rotation or use 
> exclusively the dGPU and connect another display to replace the laptop one. 
> (Since using the iGPU as a xrandr sink *also* results in distortion.)

This indeed may be a different issue, but if kernel update would fix
that, I guess you'll be happier :)

- -- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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