Re: Possible 3.13-rc nouveau regression with GT 560 Ti

[Sid Boyce]

On 31/12/13 10:36, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > System x86_64 with openSUSE 13.1.
> > X.Org version: 1.14.99.905
> >
> > openSUSE 12.2 kernels boot successfully into a graphical screen, login to
> > KDE4, etc. all normal.
> >
> > 3.13-rc kernels boot fully with X running but no graphical screen and it
> > freezes in VC with not all the startup messages displayed but I could ssh in
> > from another box to check dmesg and logs.
> >
> > Xorg.0.log which I thought I had saved did not log an error.
> >
> > dmesg said "nouveau Playlist update failed".
> >
> > Changed the GeForce GT 560 Ti for a GeForce 8600 GT and 3.13.0-rc6 is up and
> > running.
> >
> > If necessary I can go back to the GT 560 Ti to gather dmesg and Xorg log
> > information.
> Having a dmesg would be nice. One thing I can think of off-hand is
> that 3.13-rc has MSI turned on by default. You can turn it off by
> adding "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" to your kernel cmdline. If that
> doesn't help, a bisect restricted to drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau should
> show the offending commit fairly quickly.
>
>    -ilia
Adding "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0" to the command line fixed the problem.
So it looks like commit 049ffa8ab33a63b3bff672d1a0ee6a35ad253fe8 
introduced it.
Thanks Ilia,
Regards
Sid.

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