New (0.0.12-26) nouveau driver core dumping

[typerlc]

Today, I updated to xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-26.20090413 and since then X won't start with the nouveau driver.

Cards is an NV43, and was working fine prior to this latest nouveau update.

Anyone have any ideas? Just wait for the next build?

Thanks,
Richard

/var/log/Xorg.0.log contain the following excerpt:

X.Org X Server 1.6.0
Release Date: 2009-2-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 i686
Current Operating System: Linux mondo 2.6.29.1-70.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Mon Apr 13 14:00:43 EDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 13 April 2009 03:00:25PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.6.0-20.fc11
<SNIP>
(--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] rev 162, Mem @ 0xe0000000/67108864, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xe4000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
<SNIP>
(--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV43"
<SNIP>
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 12, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 12, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 12, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 12
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
(II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.3
(II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded.
(II) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] nouveau interface version: 0.0.12
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] error creating device, setting NoAccel
(!!) NOUVEAU(0): Failing back to NoAccel mode

Backtrace:
0: X(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x812e17b]
1: X(xf86SigHandler+0x9e) [0x80c0e0e]
2: [0xe84400]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nouveau_drv.so [0x313133]
4: X(InitOutput+0x4e9) [0x80a9339]
5: X(main+0x1d3) [0x806b933]
6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x51b856]
7: X [0x806afa1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

[typerlc]

Problem has been logged on bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495843

[hephasteus]

I'm looking that the testing updates right now. It's showing a 2.29-1 kernel for testing and claims breakage with nouveau driver. Says to use nv driver. I want to download it and give it a shot but not sure if the proprietary nvidia driver will play with it.

Some other stuff Im testing on 10 broke page formatting under Mozilla and I'm going to have to spend some time looking through my add/remove software logs to figure that one out. I think i have enough trouble for now. But was just shocked that it looks like 10 is going to 29 kernel and supporting ext 4 and kms and everything that 11 is doing.

Wish I knew what broke html formatting. It couldn't have been perl.

[typerlc]

Originally Posted by hephasteus

I'm looking that the testing updates right now. It's showing a 2.29-1 kernel for testing and claims breakage with nouveau driver. Says to use nv driver. I want to download it and give it a shot but not sure if the proprietary nvidia driver will play with it.

Thanks for that heads-up. I have been in discussion with one of the redhat developers, and he says he has fixed the problem and it will be released shortly. In the meantime, I am using a workaround which is to add vmalloc=128M to the kernel boot parameters. This avoids the problem.