Nouveau graphics anomaly with update to kernel 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86

[GrezH]

Hi all

I'm very new to Fedora, so please be gentle with me.

I installed F15 yesterday from a CD, and was advised today on these forums to upgrade to F16, which I did. After a few problems, I ended up with an install that didn't work that well, so did a

su -
yum clean all
yum update

and ended up with an install (over kernel 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86 that worked except that had an overscan on my monitor (which is a 22" widescreen HDTV) with no easy way of compensating for it.

As the previous install (over kernel 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86) didn't have this problem (nor did F15), I tried booting with the 3.1 kernel, and hey presto, no overscan. And TBH, it's working very well!

So my question is this: does anyone know why it's not OK with the 3.3 kernel, but works OK with the 3.1 kernel? And if so, is there a fix, or do I wait until the next kernel comes round? (Actually, that's 3 questions!)

Here's my gear, in case you need to know:
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
Memory : 8179MB (640MB used)
Operating System : Fedora release 16 (Verne)
Date/Time : Wed 28 Mar 2012 23:14:28 BST
-Display-
Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels
Graphics : nVidia GeForce 210
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NVA8
X11 Vendor : Fedora Project
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
-Input Devices-
Power Button
Power Button
Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
HDA ATI SB Headphone
HDA NVidia HDMI/DP
HDA NVidia HDMI/DP
HDA NVidia HDMI/DP
HDA NVidia HDMI/DP
-Printers (CUPS)-
Photosmart-D6100-series : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA SAMSUNG HD103SJ
ATA SAMSUNG HD103SJ
Optiarc DVD RW AD-5260S
HP Photosmart D6100
Generic USB CF Reader
Generic USB SD Reader
Generic Mini SD Reader
Generic USB MS Reader
Generic USB SM Reader


Cheers in advance

Grez

[ipilcher]

Sounds like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47846 or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806091. I've posted a patch in the latter which provides a workaround.

BTW, the reason your display works with kernels prior to 3.3 is that HDMI InfoFrame support (which is what carries audio data, among other things) was added to the nouveau driver in that version.

[GrezH]

Originally Posted by ipilcher

Sounds like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47846 or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806091. I've posted a patch in the latter which provides a workaround.

BTW, the reason your display works with kernels prior to 3.3 is that HDMI InfoFrame support (which is what carries audio data, among other things) was added to the nouveau driver in that version.

Hi thanks for that.

However, since posting this, I bit the bullet and downloaded the nVidia driver which works well and has overscan compensation on the front end.

Ta