Re: drm/nouveau E[ DRM] fail ttm_validate

[Kees Bakker]

On 04-01-13 18:49, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 01:21:14PM +0100, Kees Bakker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Right after I upgraded to Ubuntu quantal I started seeing these
> > messages:
> > Jan  4 12:18:12 koli kernel: [ 3705.970720] nouveau E[     DRM] fail ttm_validate
> > Jan  4 12:18:12 koli kernel: [ 3705.970726] nouveau E[     DRM] validate vram_list
> > Jan  4 12:18:12 koli kernel: [ 3705.970760] nouveau E[     DRM] validate: -12
> This is userspace bug. See below.
>
> > A few times I had corrupted graphics, and I had to stop X. Restarting didn't
> > help and I had to reboot.
> >
> > I'm running my own 3.7.1 kernel, so I also installed the 3.7.0 development kernel
> > from Ubuntu (3.7.0-7). And that kernel shows these messages too.
> >
> > With the Ubuntu kernel the graphics corruption is milder. I can continue to work. Sometimes
> > I get a burst of the messages, but I have no clue how it is triggered.
> >
> > Now the strange thing is that I was running my 3.7.1 kernel on Ubuntu precise
> > and I have never seen these messages before. What could be the case is that
> > xorg is doing something new and that is causing the errors.
> >
> > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> >     precise 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3
> >     quantal 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
> (Please do not use distro codenames when reporting bugs upstream)
>
> Quantal, being newer release than Precise, ships much older Nouveau DDX, WTF?
> You used some PPA with Precise?
Sorry about that. That was a typo. I meant to say:
   quantal 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3
   precise 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

> 0.0.16 is known to behave like that - you need to upgrade to >= 1.0.

In other words, I have >= 1.0. But you suggest that it shouldn't
happen with >= 1.0
Should I report it on the nouveau list at freedesktop.org ?
--
Kees

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