Re: Please revert nouveau.

[Ben S. <bs...@re...>]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Ben Skeggs <bs...@re...> wrote:
> >
> > I've tested a bit here, current git with the revert does appear to work
> > fine for me.
> 
> So Anca has a 8800GT - is that what you're testing?
I don't have an 8800 in the office, testing on a Quadro FX 570M, which
is identical from an acceleration standpoint.

Also confirmed the revert fixes the same issue on GTX465, and NV44/NV4B
(GeForce 6/7 boards).

> 
> Also, there may be things like FB config issues and/or kernel command
> line arguments. For example, on the Intel side, we had people who had
> non-working Intel modesetting because they had VESAFB and the legacy
> INTELFB enabled. Did some ordering change so that perhaps having VESA
> enabled took priority and then breaks the accelerated case or
> something?
Not that I can think of, I'll wait until I see Anca's dmesg from after
the revert.

Ben.

> 
>                             Linus