Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:57:32
Message-Id: CA+czFiA+SdidoEpXCM_f47GW8yYfakOWrZ3Ge_4PKBrrvUJmig@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X by Alecks Gates
1 Sounds like a bad color transform in Flash or the video driver. Maybe
2 the U and V channels are being swapped. No idea why, though.
3
4 On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > Wait a second, was just scimming this and saw you mention blue faces.  I
6 > have a 210 using the latest binary drivers from nvidia and it seems like all
7 > red color shows up as blue in the flash player (and only flash player).  It
8 > had never happened any time previously, and this was a new install.
9 >
10 > Frankly I have no idea how to fix it, but I mostly ignored it until now
11 > because of html5 videos (where the problem doesn't occur).
12 >
13 > Not sure I'll be able to reply with details after this but I thought I'd
14 > mention it....
15 >
16 > Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
17 >
18 > On Apr 18, 2012 9:28 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
19 >>
20 >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
21 >> > Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
22 >>
23 >>  The proprietary driver partly works.  Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
24 >> are OK.  1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering.  But
25 >> colours are way off on hue.  Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
26 >> trailer <G>).  Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
27 >> it.  I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
28 >> fsck.  Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
29 >>
30 >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]
31 >> (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
32 >>        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
33 >>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
34 >>        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
35 >>        Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
36 >>        Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
37 >>        I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
38 >>        [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
39 >>        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
40 >>        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
41 >>        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
42 >>        Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
43 >>        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
44 >>        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
45 >>        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
46 >> Len=024 <?>
47 >>        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
48 >>        Kernel modules: nvidia
49 >>
50 >> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller
51 >> (rev a1)
52 >>        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c7
53 >>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
54 >>        Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
55 >>        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
56 >>        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
57 >>        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
58 >>        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
59 >>
60 >>  I'm file-attaching the Xorg log and the xorg.conf, if they'll help.
61 >>
62 >> --
63 >> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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67 --
68 :wq