[SOLVED] RIVA TNT2 64 on F12 crashes nouveau driver

[pwalden]

I just installed F12 over a former F9 system. I have a a nvidia TNT2 card. Formerly it was using the nv driver, which I understand has been replaced by the nouveau driver. Specifically this is what is reported in Xorg.0.log

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:002d:1043:0239 nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] rev 21, Mem @ 0x
f4000000/16777216, 0xf6000000/33554432, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536

The install ended up with a xorg.conf setting the driver to vesa. I presume this is because the standard install/upgrade option did not work and I had to install using the "basic video driver". Since I used this system to watch DVDs, the vesa driver does not work for me (too slow). So I tried removing the xorg.conf and followed these instructions for unsupported nvidia cards in order to try to get the nouveau driver working.

This failed. I I got was a black screen with a cursor following the mouse. Checking the Xorg.0.log I see the nouveau crash dump listed below.

I checked for fedora bugs, but I saw nothing like this one. I can't watch DVDs on this system at this point. Any ideas as to what I can try next?

(II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
(II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 0.0.10
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "vesa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.6.99.1, module version = 2.2.1
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
(II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.6.99.1, module version = 0.4.1
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) NOUVEAU driver 
(II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
	RIVA TNT    (NV04)
	RIVA TNT2   (NV05)
	GeForce 256 (NV10)
	GeForce 2   (NV11, NV15)
	GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)
	GeForce 3   (NV20)
	GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)
	GeForce FX  (NV3x)
	GeForce 6   (NV4x)
	GeForce 7   (G7x)
	GeForce 8   (G8x)
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
(II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 0.0.2
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV04"
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Initializing int10
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) Loading sub module "dri"
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Loaded DRI module
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11
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: 0.0.15
(--) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] kernel modesetting not available
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
	"Builtin Default nouveau Screen 0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(==) NOUVEAU(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NOUVEAU(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NOUVEAU(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 0.1.0
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(==) NOUVEAU(0): Using HW cursor
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): EXAPixmaps support requires KMS
(--) NOUVEAU(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF6000000
(--) NOUVEAU(0): MMIO registers at 0xF4000000
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Attempting to load BIOS image from PROM
(II) NOUVEAU(0): ... appears to be valid
(II) NOUVEAU(0): BMP BIOS found
(II) NOUVEAU(0): BMP version 5.17
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Bios version 03.05.00.10
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Found Display Configuration Block version 1.5
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): Bad Display Configuration Block signature ()

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80e587c]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x5fb66) [0x80a6b66]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb0f40c]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0xe5f000+0x2142c) [0xe8042c]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0xe5f000+0x1af95) [0xe79f95]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x5c9) [0x80b6939]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x1b710) [0x8062710]
7: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x300bb6]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x1b4b1) [0x80624b1]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

---------- Post added at 07:42 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 PM CST ----------

Well I copied my F9 xorg.conf file, specifying the nv driver,over to my F12 instance.

I thought I'd fiddle with it a bit, but I forgot to change the "nv" to "nouveau" before I rebooted. To my great surprise it came up Checking the log file, the nv driver was being used

I thought it was deprecated?

Now I can get my 1280x1024 resolution and play DVDs, too. The F9 xorg.conf below. Am I missing out on something the noveau driver can do, like 3D acceleration?

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "ViewSonic VX900"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 82.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

[pwalden]

FYI: I created a bug for the nouveau problem

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555202

[pwalden]

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-19.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.

http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updat...ite1c2efd.fc12

[pwalden]

An update on this thread.

The 2.26.32 kernel is out and the fixed nouveau is now in the kernel. An artifact of this is an Xorg crash if you still have the nomodeset kernel setting in your boot instructions.

[Hlingler]

Way to keep on this, and thanks for keeping us updated. Does the latest 'nouveau' driver deliver 3D rendering? If so, I've got a Riva/TNT2 card that's been languishing for quite some time that I'd like to try on one of my machines (it's better than what's on there now. ).

V

[pwalden]

Does the latest 'nouveau' driver deliver 3D rendering?

Unfortunately the answer is No, according to the nouveau wiki.

Any 3-D functionality that might exist is still unsupported. Do not ask for instructions to try it. But you can read GalliumHowto in case you are brave enough.

I can report that using glxgears I get 85fps on my 8 year old 1.6GHz 686 processor with TNT2. That is 2x faster than with the nv driver I was using on FC9.