[Bug 1014775] Re: Completely garbled video in X with nouveau with NV31M (Geforce FX Go5600)

[fpgahardwareengineer]

Hi,

This may be unrelated, but I have observed that GeForce FX series graphics cards do have problems drawing the left hand side launcher in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
This bug has not been fixed at all in Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
I only tested this with 32-bit version.
I own GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce FX 5700 graphics cards (both AGP), and have the exact same issue.
Is anyone aware of this bug, and when will it be fixed?
That being said, GeForce FX's ACPI S3 State resume (A source of irritation for me since it is broken in Linux even today. ACPI S3 State has been around for 10 years already. How long does it take for Linux developers to fully test their device driver code against ACPI S3 State?) seems to work fine with several Intel and SiS chipset mainboards I have tested.

Regards,

fpgahardwareengineer

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Title:
  Completely garbled video in X with nouveau with NV31M (Geforce FX
  Go5600)

Status in “libdrm” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading to 12.04, the display become so garbled as to be
  unusable. I have to append the boot parameter "nomodeset" which
  apparently disables nouveau completely, so graphics are unaccelerated.
  This also happened with a LiveCD, which means Ubuntu does not work
  "out of box" with this old machine, an Acer Aspire 1705SMi.

  After GRUB and without nomodeset, the screen goes blank (dpms mode 3)
  for about 35 seconds before returning in unreadable-multi-colour-oil-
  slick form. I'm not sure if the problem is with the xserver driver or
  the kernel nouveau module, which seems incredibly outdated (I saw a 3
  year old build date in a log?!) in the latest Ubuntu.

  Attaching dmesg and Xorg.0 (without nomodeset).

  uname etc:

  Linux galbadia 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:33:05 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"

  relevant lspci:

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV31M
  [GeForce FX Go5600] [10de:031a] (rev a1)

  package version:

  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
    Installed: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
    Candidate: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

  linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic:
    Installed: 3.2.0-25.40
    Candidate: 3.2.0-25.40

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