On 2011-01-04 00:50 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 > Severity: normal > > if i boot with no xorg.conf on a brand new squeeze install (on powerpc, with > a GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (rev b2)) > then i get a 1024x768, 8bpp display because X seems to have fallen back to > the fbdev driver. > > if i explicitly set an xorg.conf (see below) to use fbdev, i can at least get > 24bpp, which makes > it usable for a modern graphical console. > > attached is another X.org logs (made with no xorg.conf, for comparison), and > the output of lspci -vv, if that > is useful. > > If we're falling back to fbdev, it might be nice to default that to 24bpp > instead of 8bpp, especially if we > know the hardware can support it. > > This could of course be a bug in the kernel, one of the support libraries, > X11, or otherwise. i'm not enough > of an X.org hacker to know for sure. feel free to reassign if needed. > > I also tried (using no xorg.conf) with linux-image-2.6.37-rc7-powerpc as the > kernel, and with the xorg and drm > components from experimental (including building xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > from the debian-experimental branch > from git).
In that case, please file a bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg. Choose Driver/nouveau as Component, and let us know the bug number. > DRM Information from dmesg: > [ 2.201365] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 > [ 2.201454] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: Apple UniNorth 1.5 chipset > [ 2.203192] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: configuring for size idx: 64 > [ 2.203355] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0 > [ 338.573775] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 This looks suspicious to me, why are there no nouveau messages here? Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
