Nouveau here yesterday, gone today

[Steven Stern]

On 04/27/2011 10:30 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 04/27/2011 09:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:32 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> Something that was working a couple of yum-updates ago isn't working
>>> now.  When the nVidia graphics adapter is enabled, I'm OK until I log
>>> in. Then the shell screen is scrambled in various ways.
>>>
>>> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_2e1dcbc6-c0c7-4634-94ed-e052a0dfb239
>>
>> Did Shell work before, or were you on fallback? Did you change your set
>> up in any way (different monitor, added a monitor, changed a cable,
>> anything like that)? Thanks!
> 
> For a couple of days, Shell worked perfectly.  Now it's toast. It
> doesn't fall back -- the screen is all garbled.    There's a video
> linked to one of my comments in bz:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694626
> 
> Nothing changed other than the software.  Not working. Yum update.  Hey,
> it's working.  Yum update.  Hey, it's not.
> 

And with today's updates (including 2.6.38.4-20 kernel) the nouveau
driver is again working.



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-- Steve