I have an old computer with an FX5200 AGP card. I've tried to update it this weekend to the latest Tumbleweed and the colors in X are all scrambled. Only the colors are wrong and it looks like the order of the bits is reversed or something: the tinier the expected color variation, the more drastic the actual result. I can't find any parameter that seems to influence that and searching the bugbase has also come up empty. Does somebody has an idea of what to try?
Regards, Achim.
I noted the same in this openSUSE forum thread: https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/tumbleweed/48251...
Its not just Tumbleweed. openSUSE-12.3 beta1 has the same problem. I wrote a bug report here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686
... I'm thinking also a bug report on https://bugs.freedesktop.org may be necessary ... but I have not been well and I'm waiting for some feedback before I expend the energy to write the same bug report on freedesktop (ie upstream).
wrt Tumbleweed, if you roll back the kernel like I did in the thread I quoted, you will have your Tumbleweed working again.
Lee aka oldcpu
On 01/27/2013 02:21 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
I have an old computer with an FX5200 AGP card. I've tried to update it this weekend to the latest Tumbleweed and the colors in X are all scrambled. Only the colors are wrong and it looks like the order of the bits is reversed or something: the tinier the expected color variation, the more drastic the actual result. I can't find any parameter that seems to influence that and searching the bugbase has also come up empty. Does somebody has an idea of what to try?
Regards, Achim.
oldcpu writes:
I noted the same in this openSUSE forum thread:
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wrt Tumbleweed, if you roll back the kernel like I did in the thread I quoted, you will have your Tumbleweed working again.
Thanks for chiming in. If it's the KMS stuff then I'm golden: I have the latest two working kernels (plus the new one) still installed on the machine. I'm not sure when I will get around to test this, but I'll let you know.
Regards, Achim.
Achim Gratz writes:
Thanks for chiming in. If it's the KMS stuff then I'm golden: I have the latest two working kernels (plus the new one) still installed on the machine. I'm not sure when I will get around to test this, but I'll let you know.
Booting the machine with the previous 3.4.6 kernel (yes it's been a while before I updated again) resolves the problem.
Regards, Achim.
On 02/02/2013 02:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Achim Gratz writes:
Thanks for chiming in. If it's the KMS stuff then I'm golden: I have the latest two working kernels (plus the new one) still installed on the machine. I'm not sure when I will get around to test this, but I'll let you know.
Booting the machine with the previous 3.4.6 kernel (yes it's been a while before I updated again) resolves the problem.
In addition to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686 raised on openSUSE-12.3 beta1 (problem also is present on 12.3 RC1) , I raised an upstream bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60516 on the nouveau driver with the 3.7 kernel. This is my 1st upstream bug report (that I can recall) so hopefully I managed submitting it correctly.
I also note two other GNU/Linux distributions with the 3.7 kernel (one slackware based and one Ubuntu based) have the identical symptoms with the nouveau driver and the 3.7.x kernel when using the nvidia FX5200 graphic hardware (on the identical PC).
As a note, a test kernel-3.7.10 was posted to the https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686 (comment#11) raised on openSUSE-12.3, which I tried out on my PC with the FX5200 graphic card. The test kernel works with the nouveau driver on openSUSE-12.3 GM version with the nouveau driver. I'm hopeful that this patch will make it into future openSUSE releases, and possibly into an official openSUSE-12.3 kernel update ?? (I'm waiting to see the kernel poster's response).
I can't tell the source of the patch (local or upstream) as doing a " rpm -qp kernel-desktop-3.7.10-0.i686.rpm --changehistory " shows various updates but does not make clear to me (with my limited knowledge) as to which patch addressed the nouveau driver problem.
But I am very happy to see / test the test kernel (which works !! ) . :)
On 02/08/2013 09:58 PM, oldcpu wrote:
On 02/02/2013 02:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Achim Gratz writes:
Thanks for chiming in. If it's the KMS stuff then I'm golden: I have the latest two working kernels (plus the new one) still installed on the machine. I'm not sure when I will get around to test this, but I'll let you know.
Booting the machine with the previous 3.4.6 kernel (yes it's been a while before I updated again) resolves the problem.
In addition to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800686 raised on openSUSE-12.3 beta1 (problem also is present on 12.3 RC1) , I raised an upstream bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60516 on the nouveau driver with the 3.7 kernel. This is my 1st upstream bug report (that I can recall) so hopefully I managed submitting it correctly.
I also note two other GNU/Linux distributions with the 3.7 kernel (one slackware based and one Ubuntu based) have the identical symptoms with the nouveau driver and the 3.7.x kernel when using the nvidia FX5200 graphic hardware (on the identical PC).
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