* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 1:27 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2012-04-19 1:49 ` Mark Knecht
2012-04-19 10:44 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
2 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2012-04-19 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>> Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
>
> The proprietary driver partly works. Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
> are OK. 1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering. But
> colours are way off on hue. Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
> trailer <G>). Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
> it. I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
> fsck. Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
I've never seen problems like these on my machine which almost all run
NVidia chips. I haven't tried this Open Source in years myself.
- Mark
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 1:49 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2012-04-19 10:44 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 13:03 ` Mark Knecht
0 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2012-04-19 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:49:59PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
> Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
I think something got lost in the translation. This is the Nvidia
closed source driver giving me the problems...
Closed Source != Open Source
Proprietary != Open Source
Proprietary == Closed source
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 10:44 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2012-04-19 13:03 ` Mark Knecht
0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2012-04-19 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:49:59PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
>
>> Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
>
> I think something got lost in the translation. This is the Nvidia
> closed source driver giving me the problems...
>
> Closed Source != Open Source
> Proprietary != Open Source
> Proprietary == Closed source
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>
Well then, I guess I must be confused because your initial post in
this thread seemed to me to be about the Open Source driver:
[QUOTE]
I started a thread a while ago about looking for an accelerated video
card. I went and got an ASUS EN210 Silent PCIe card and followed the
instructions at the Gentoo Nouveau wiki. I have not been able to get X
running yet. Trying to launch X with startx blanks the screen, and I
can't get it back. Note that the machine does *NOT* lock up, rather the
video gets disabled until I reboot. I can ssh into the machine. It
appears to be working fine. If I...
* start a root text console in TTY8
* switch to TTY9
* startx
The screen goes blank and I can't get graphics or GUI, no matter what
I do. I can ssh in from another machine and things look OK. As a
matter of fact, I can {CTRL-ALT-F8} and blindly issue the command
"reboot" or "halt -p", and it gets executed. The attached Xorg.log file
shows nothing wrong. "Xorg -configure" does generate an xorg.conf.new
file, but screams about...
====================================================================
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.
====================================================================
The Gentoo Nouveau wiki says that message comes either from disabling
DRI (which I didn't do) or from the wrong opengl. I only have the xorg
version. Any ideas? Do the proprietary Nvidia drivers work with kernel
3.2.12? I'm running with mdev instead of udev. Would that make a
difference?
[/QUOTE]
Anyway, I run the closed source driver on 5 machines here. They all
work fine. None of my NVidia cards are 210-based.
Sorry for the noise,
Mark
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 1:27 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 1:49 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:31 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 0:49 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
2 siblings, 2 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Michael Mol @ 2012-04-19 2:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>> Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
>
> The proprietary driver partly works. Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
> are OK. 1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering. But
> colours are way off on hue. Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
> trailer <G>). Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
> it. I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
> fsck. Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
> Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
> I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
> [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
> Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
> Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
> Kernel driver in use: nvidia
> Kernel modules: nvidia
>
> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>
> I'm file-attaching the Xorg log and the xorg.conf, if they'll help.
Hm. Things to try.
eselect opengel set nvidia
eselect opencl set nvidia
revdep-rebuild # mplayer locking up the entire system is unusual, to
say the least.
The nvidia-drivers build should have screamed bloody murder if you had
any incompatible kernel options set (or required ones missing).
--
:wq
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
@ 2012-04-19 12:31 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 0:49 ` Walter Dnes
1 sibling, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2012-04-19 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
> revdep-rebuild # mplayer locking up the entire system is unusual, to
> say the least.
I set vdpau USE flag and tested "emerge -pv --deep --newuse mplayer".
Turns out that x11-libs/libdrm and media-libs/mesa still had nouveau
code... dohhhh. Rebuilding libdrm+mesa+mplayer as I speak... err type.
See my other message for the 1-line change to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg that
fixed the colour issue.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:31 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2012-04-20 0:49 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 11:25 ` Dale
1 sibling, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2012-04-20 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
> revdep-rebuild # mplayer locking up the entire system is unusual, to
> say the least.
>
> The nvidia-drivers build should have screamed bloody murder if you had
> any incompatible kernel options set (or required ones missing).
I think the problem is that I specified "xv" for video output in
~/.mplayer/config and the Nvidia drivers do not like xv at all. I
deleted ~/.mplayer/config and mplayer works. I'm looking carefully at
all the USE options for mplayer, and checking them for any more possible
problems.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-20 0:49 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2012-04-20 11:25 ` Dale
0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Dale @ 2012-04-20 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>
>> revdep-rebuild # mplayer locking up the entire system is unusual, to
>> say the least.
>>
>> The nvidia-drivers build should have screamed bloody murder if you had
>> any incompatible kernel options set (or required ones missing).
>
> I think the problem is that I specified "xv" for video output in
> ~/.mplayer/config and the Nvidia drivers do not like xv at all. I
> deleted ~/.mplayer/config and mplayer works. I'm looking carefully at
> all the USE options for mplayer, and checking them for any more possible
> problems.
>
I played with these settings on mine and the one that worked best for me
was gl. I use smplayer, a front end for mplayer, and I selected the "gl
(fast)" setting. It has several settings and that one seemed to work
without any pauses or anything else.
There are several gl settings tho. One for ATI cards and a couple other
generic ones.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
Miss the compile output? Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 1:27 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 1:49 ` Mark Knecht
2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
@ 2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
2012-04-19 2:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:23 ` Walter Dnes
2 siblings, 2 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Alecks Gates @ 2012-04-19 2:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Wait a second, was just scimming this and saw you mention blue faces. I
have a 210 using the latest binary drivers from nvidia and it seems like
all red color shows up as blue in the flash player (and only flash
player). It had never happened any time previously, and this was a new
install.
Frankly I have no idea how to fix it, but I mostly ignored it until now
because of html5 videos (where the problem doesn't occur).
Not sure I'll be able to reply with details after this but I thought I'd
mention it....
Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
On Apr 18, 2012 9:28 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
> > Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
>
> The proprietary driver partly works. Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
> are OK. 1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering. But
> colours are way off on hue. Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
> trailer <G>). Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
> it. I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
> fsck. Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]
> (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
> Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
> I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
> [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
> Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
> Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
> Len=024 <?>
> Kernel driver in use: nvidia
> Kernel modules: nvidia
>
> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller
> (rev a1)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>
> I'm file-attaching the Xorg log and the xorg.conf, if they'll help.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
@ 2012-04-19 2:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:23 ` Walter Dnes
1 sibling, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Michael Mol @ 2012-04-19 2:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Sounds like a bad color transform in Flash or the video driver. Maybe
the U and V channels are being swapped. No idea why, though.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait a second, was just scimming this and saw you mention blue faces. I
> have a 210 using the latest binary drivers from nvidia and it seems like all
> red color shows up as blue in the flash player (and only flash player). It
> had never happened any time previously, and this was a new install.
>
> Frankly I have no idea how to fix it, but I mostly ignored it until now
> because of html5 videos (where the problem doesn't occur).
>
> Not sure I'll be able to reply with details after this but I thought I'd
> mention it....
>
> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
>
> On Apr 18, 2012 9:28 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>> > Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
>>
>> The proprietary driver partly works. Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
>> are OK. 1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering. But
>> colours are way off on hue. Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
>> trailer <G>). Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
>> it. I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
>> fsck. Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]
>> (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
>> Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>> Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>> Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>> I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
>> [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
>> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
>> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>> Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
>> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
>> Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
>> Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
>> Len=024 <?>
>> Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>> Kernel modules: nvidia
>>
>> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller
>> (rev a1)
>> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>> Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
>> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>>
>> I'm file-attaching the Xorg log and the xorg.conf, if they'll help.
>>
>> --
>> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
--
:wq
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
2012-04-19 2:55 ` Michael Mol
@ 2012-04-19 12:23 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 20:44 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
1 sibling, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2012-04-19 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:47:01PM -0400, Alecks Gates wrote
> Wait a second, was just scimming this and saw you mention blue faces. I
> have a 210 using the latest binary drivers from nvidia and it seems like
> all red color shows up as blue in the flash player (and only flash
> player). It had never happened any time previously, and this was a new
> install.
>
> Frankly I have no idea how to fix it, but I mostly ignored it until now
> because of html5 videos (where the problem doesn't occur).
Once I realized that this was a general problem, not a Walter Dnes
problem, I did some Google research. A few of the hits were
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=176210
Patching source code... bleagh.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/974620
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/+bug/967091/comments/9
The last one almost worked for me. Adding 2 lines to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
was suggested, namely...
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
OverrideGPUValidation=true
This works, and colours are correct, but the Flash plugin crashes a
lot. The best setup for me is to only add the line...
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
Youtube 1080P HD videos play fullscreen in proper colour. The best
setting may vary from machine to machine.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
2012-04-19 12:23 ` Walter Dnes
@ 2012-04-19 20:44 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Per-Erik Westerberg @ 2012-04-19 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
tor 2012-04-19 klockan 08:23 -0400 skrev Walter Dnes:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:47:01PM -0400, Alecks Gates wrote
> > Wait a second, was just scimming this and saw you mention blue faces. I
> > have a 210 using the latest binary drivers from nvidia and it seems like
> > all red color shows up as blue in the flash player (and only flash
> > player). It had never happened any time previously, and this was a new
> > install.
> >
> > Frankly I have no idea how to fix it, but I mostly ignored it until now
> > because of html5 videos (where the problem doesn't occur).
>
> Once I realized that this was a general problem, not a Walter Dnes
> problem, I did some Google research. A few of the hits were
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=176210
>
> Patching source code... bleagh.
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/974620
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/+bug/967091/comments/9
>
> The last one almost worked for me. Adding 2 lines to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
> was suggested, namely...
>
> EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
> OverrideGPUValidation=true
>
> This works, and colours are correct, but the Flash plugin crashes a
> lot. The best setup for me is to only add the line...
>
> EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
>
> Youtube 1080P HD videos play fullscreen in proper colour. The best
> setting may vary from machine to machine.
>
Hi,
Downgrading to 11.1.102.63 of www-plugins/adobe-flash took care of the
problem for me.
BR / Per-Erik
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