On 31/12/13 10:36, Ilia Mirkin 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
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Sid Boyce
wrote: 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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org