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On 2009-11-12T11:19:40+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Nouveau works nicely on my laptop, including suspend and resume, until
the power source changes (from AC to battery or from battery to AC).

After that event, mouse pointer gets flaky and I see in
/var/log/messages lots of lines like:

Nov 12 01:01:12 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor
Nov 12 01:01:12 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
setting cursor image
Nov 12 01:01:12 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor
Nov 12 01:01:14 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
setting cursor image
Nov 12 01:01:14 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor


Card is:
nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 130M [10de:042a]

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On 2009-11-12T22:18:28+00:00 Ben wrote:

Is this 100% reproducible on your system, or a random occurance?

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On 2009-11-13T07:42:59+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

100% reproducible. The timing between power source change and the
symptoms varies, but always within minutes I get to the issue.

Right now the only way out seems a reboot, suspending or hibernating
leads to a black screen on resume.

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On 2009-11-16T23:57:39+00:00 Richard wrote:

I have experienced this same problem on my desktop system a few days
ago.  I have not used suspend/resume.

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.1-7.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-debuginfo-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.i686

It's only happened once, but when it happened, my machine got horribly
slow.  Restarting X "resolved" the issue.

Xorg.0.log and /var/log/messages will be attached...

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On 2009-11-16T23:58:52+00:00 Richard wrote:

Created attachment 369809
Xorg.0.log from the session where the cursor problem occured

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On 2009-11-16T23:59:41+00:00 Richard wrote:

Created attachment 369810
Relevant /var/log/messages from the session where the cursor problem occured

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On 2009-11-22T10:11:29+00:00 Andrew wrote:

Affects me too. 100% reproducible by doing the following:

1. Set close lid to blank screen
2. Close lid
3. Open lid

It also seems to happen after 30-60 minutes of general usage.

>From that point on any cursor change (mouse over anything) creates the
following messages and bursts of high CPU usage:

Nov 22 09:58:44 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor
Nov 22 09:58:44 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
setting cursor image
Nov 22 09:58:44 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor
Nov 22 09:58:45 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
setting cursor image
Nov 22 09:58:45 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while 
unhiding cursor

Card is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 130M (rev a1) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Region 5: I/O ports at cf00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [78] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, 
L1 <4us
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- 
Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- 
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency 
L0 <512ns, L1 <4us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- 
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ 
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb


Rebooting clears this, and doesn't happen with proprietary driver.

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On 2009-11-22T10:20:22+00:00 Andrew wrote:

In my case suspend/resume works to clear it.  I get a black screen with
cursor on resume (animation at full speed which indicates problem
cleared), switching to a console 2 and back to 1 gets the unlock screen.
Once unlocked no cursor problems.

So, a sort of workaround for now :)

Also happens switching to battery for me, as the original reporter
indicated.

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On 2009-11-23T09:00:58+00:00 Tom wrote:

This just happened to me as well - this is a desktop system so no
suspend/resume or anything. The machine had been up for about four days
(but unused for the last two) and just suddenly started spitting out
those messages every time anything tried to change the cursor.

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On 2009-11-23T09:08:58+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Tom, which graphic card are you running (use "lspci -nn" to find out)?

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On 2009-11-23T09:11:46+00:00 Tom wrote:

The card is:

nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT [10de:0402] (rev a1)

I do have a slightly unusual setup in that I have two monitors attached,
one of which is rotated. This has led to one other cursor related
problem which is reported in bug #538866.

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On 2009-11-30T22:42:59+00:00 Robert wrote:

I'm seeing this problem too, on a laptop, takes a while to occur, then
my dmesg gets full of those no space while setting/unhiding cursor
errors.

lspci output:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS 
[10de:0427] (rev a1)

dmesg output:
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while setting cursor image
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding cursor
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while setting cursor image
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding cursor

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On 2009-12-02T03:49:50+00:00 Ben wrote:

*** Bug 541628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-12-17T22:38:50+00:00 Ben wrote:

*** Bug 548545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-12-19T15:54:40+00:00 Kyle wrote:

I'm seeing similar symptoms.

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT200
[GeForce GTX 260] [10de:05e2] (rev a1)

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64


I have a dual screen setup and I'm seeing lots of the "no space while setting 
cursor image" notices. When moving the mouse from one monitor to the other, the 
cursor gets "stuck" on the previous monitor. This primarily happens when the 
cursor changes, ie, when moused over a border to resize a window. When this 
happens, the stuck cursor appears several hundred pixels higher on the middle 
border of the screen (in this example, with the "resize" cursor).

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On 2010-01-11T04:00:11+00:00 Ben wrote:

Are you guys able to update to kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=147895) and report
how things are.

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On 2010-01-11T08:35:41+00:00 Tom wrote:

I've been running on that kernel since last Wednesday, and no sign of
any problems so far. It can sometimes take a week or more before it
happens though so it may still appear again.

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On 2010-01-11T13:48:23+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Hi Ben, I did not realize there were changes related to this in the
latest kernel. I just tried unplugging the power cord and my cursor
completely disappeared...

However, after a reboot I was not able to reproduce the issue again, so
I'm not really sure about the status of this bug. I will test a bit more
then let you know how it goes.

Thanks!

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On 2010-01-13T15:17:27+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Ben, right it seems the original issue is gone for me.

I think there's more to investigate (for instance, I experienced a black
screen with only the mouse visible on a resume after suspend) but I
guess I'll open other reports if I manage undestard which usage pattern
triggers it.

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On 2010-01-13T15:26:03+00:00 Robert wrote:

Yup, I've re-tested and this issue seems fixed for me too.

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On 2010-02-09T08:34:20+00:00 Miroslav wrote:

Experiencing this issue right on Quadro NVS 140m (Thinkpad T61) - dual screen 
setup with
kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-19.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64
Going for newest rawhide kernel, report back if issue won't dissapear
>From var log messages:
...
Feb  9 09:31:59  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:31:59  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:32:24  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:32:24  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:32:24  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while hiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:32:24  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while unhiding 
cursor
Feb  9 09:32:27  kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while hiding 
cursor

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On 2010-02-09T10:56:21+00:00 Ben wrote:

Miroslav: is this an easily reproducible issue for you?  I may have
added a fix to nouveau upstream, which'll make it into rawhide soon that
will hopefully fix this once and for all.  I can't say for sure since
none of my cards exhibit the problem for some reason.

The current rawhide kernel has code which'll mostly avoid the issue,
making it much harder to reproduce (in theory).

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On 2010-02-09T11:09:09+00:00 Miroslav wrote:

Ben, it isn't easily reproducible :/. My system was running for several
days with kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12 and the bug appeared "from
nowhere" there too. I will try the new rawhide kernel when it's build.
When it will appear after that, I will report back. Thanks for the info.

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On 2010-02-22T04:02:21+00:00 Ben wrote:

*** Bug 562496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-02-23T15:49:21+00:00 Laurence wrote:

This problem still happens for me, using the latest upstream git of
everything (linux, xorg xorg drivers, etc) as of Feb 18 2010, however it
has "improved" a little since earlier.  My system chip is Quadro NVS
135M (rev a1).

This kludge to the nouveau driver in linux stops the problems happening
for me altogether:

------------------------------------------------------------
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_cursor.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_cursor.c
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ nv50_cursor_show(struct nouveau_crtc *nv_crtc, bool
update) struct drm_device *dev = nv_crtc->base.dev;
        int ret;
 
+       static int count = 0;
+       
+       if (count > 3) {
+               return;
+       } else {
+               count++;
+       }
+       
        NV_DEBUG_KMS(dev, "\n");
 
        if (update && nv_crtc->cursor.visible)
@@ -76,6 +84,8 @@ nv50_cursor_hide(struct nouveau_crtc *nv_crtc, bool
update) struct drm_device *dev = nv_crtc->base.dev;
        int ret;
 
+       return;
+
        NV_DEBUG_KMS(dev, "\n");
 
        if (update && !nv_crtc->cursor.visible)
------------------------------------------------------------


This raises a lot of issues - what was happening is that READ_GET() in
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dma.c returned EBUSY.  It looks to me that
the performance problems are because of a spin lock - if I try increasing
the timeout int READ_GET() from 100000 to 1000000, the performance problems
get 10 times worse.  

Secondly, why are nv50_cursor_show() & nv50_cursor_hide()
in /drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_cursor.c  being called so often?  _show
only needs to be called once per attached monitor, and then _hide only when
it really does need to be hidden, ie. when playing a movie or switching VT
(ie. with the above kludge the mouse cursor stays visible on the VT's), not
every time the mouse cursor changes.  It could be even my WM (IceWM) making all 
those calls, I haven't looked into this further. 

I don't have time to look into this further at all.

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On 2010-02-23T22:52:55+00:00 Ben wrote:

Show/Hide will get called every time the cursor image is updated,
however, they'll actually do nothing unless it needs to change the
state, which isn't very often.

The reason it's returning EBUSY is because the display engine is hanging
for some, yet unknown, reason.  Unfortunately none of my systems appear
to display the behaviour so I've not been able to track down what's
going on yet.

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On 2010-03-16T11:20:53+00:00 Stefan wrote:

The same is also happening for me with Fedora 13 Alpha (fully updated).

Hardware:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 290 (rev a1)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400
HP dc7900 (IC10 chipset)

Software:
kernel-2.6.33-1.fc13.x86_64 with no non-Fedora modules
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-2.20100218git2964702.fc13.x86_64

I have been running Fedora 13 Alpha since the release day, and the
problem only happened today after about 4 hours uptime and 2 hours of
active work. Something is different today than the days before: I've
mounted the debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug, which I have not done before
today. It would be a strange connection if this was the culprit, though.

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On 2010-03-16T11:22:51+00:00 Stefan wrote:

I'm running a normal GNOME desktop. It happens when I move the cursor
from Firefox to Emacs or vice versa. It does not happen when the cursor
moves between Firefox/xterm or Emacs/xterm.

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On 2010-03-16T11:25:23+00:00 Stefan wrote:

Sorry for spamming, but the only messages I get are "no space while
hiding cursor", no unhiding or setting cursor image.

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On 2010-03-16T12:51:17+00:00 Stefan wrote:

One more thing - it doesn't have to do with Firefox/emacs/whatever. It
happened when I moved the mouse cursor from the left screen to the right
one and vice versa.

I have two 24" displays at 1920x1200 attached via DVI.

I've never had this problem with Fedora 12 which I've been running
extensively until a few days ago.

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On 2010-03-23T14:38:56+00:00 Stefan wrote:

Created attachment 402070
log excerpt

It happened again today with the same kernel and nouveau versions still.
And xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.901-8.20100223.fc13.x86_64 (forgot to
mention this in comment 26).

When it happened, I tried logging out of the GNOME session which caused
both monitors to power down until reboot. I'm attaching an excerpt from
/var/log/messages at the time it happened and also the Xorg output,
while I'm at it.

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On 2010-03-23T14:39:28+00:00 Stefan wrote:

Created attachment 402071
xorg server log

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On 2010-04-04T23:20:59+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Ben, I'm sorry to say this issue is showing itself again, I'm now
running the latest F12 bits, kernel-2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64, xorg-x11
-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-21.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64.

I'm probably going to move on F13 soon so I will be able to say if the
same happens there.

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On 2010-04-04T23:31:58+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Albeit, I'm noticing a difference: this time only one kind of messages
is appearing in /var/log/messages:

Apr  5 01:29:41 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space
while unhiding cursor

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On 2010-05-19T22:09:27+00:00 Ben wrote:

*** Bug 593695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-05-28T15:57:45+00:00 Jerry wrote:

I originally filed 548545, which was marked as a duplicate of this bug.
I just had the same symptom happen: the mouse pointer is no longer drawn
when on the left monitor.  No messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just this
one line in /var/log/messages:

May 28 09:49:10 localhost kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: EvoCh 0
Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002 0x01)

The mouse pointer is still drawn on the right monitor.  This machine is
now running F-13, updated this morning.  Possibly relevant version
numbers:

kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-7.8.1-6.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-14.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-6.20100423git13c1043.fc13.x86_64

Is this really the same bug?

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On 2010-06-13T13:52:37+00:00 David wrote:

Something similar seems to have recurred in F-13

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002
0x01)

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On 2010-06-29T18:40:58+00:00 David wrote:

I get the same message as David in comment #36, then the stream of no
space messages with jerky window and cursor behaviour.

Fully up-to-date F13,

kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-6.20100423git13c1043.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-17.fc13.x86_64

nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1)

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On 2010-07-13T21:17:24+00:00 Donald wrote:

I started getting these messages yesterday, I suspect it was when I experienced 
a sudden very high load and non-responsiveness - I was running a windows 
machine inside virtualbox so that I could run gotomeeting, and I was given 
control of the meeting.  When I would click on something in the vm nothing 
would happen until I moved the mouse out of the virtualbox.
But I've continued to get the messages at a lower rate even after suspending 
the windows machine.
kernel= 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.x86_64

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On 2010-07-28T04:45:33+00:00 Andrew wrote:

I had this problem a while ago and rolled back nouveau and the problem
went away (well it didn't happen again - but of course that's no
certainty that the bug was not present in the earlier versions)

The old nouveau that appears to be OK is: 
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2ef
(that's the one I rolled back to when the mouse problem first showed itself)

5 days ago I did a full update that included:
kernel-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.x86_64 and
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-21.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64
and the problem has happened again today (for the first time since the rollback)

Xorg.0.log info:

First nVidia message is:
nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS rev 161, Mem @ 0xf6000000/16777216, 
0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf4000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000b000/128, BIOS @ 
0x????????/131072

I use a USB mouse, log says:
Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)

I also have a USB Bamboo that the log finds BEFORE the mouse:
Wacom BambooFun 6x8
(I don't use the pen)

The rest of the log looks like status dumps without any error messages.

In my case it's a dual display and acts even stranger when the problem occurs 
(randomly?):
The left display shows the mouse correctly (but jerky)
In the right display (which has the menu bar) the mouse works but it is 
invisible
More strange: the mouse image is partially still shown on the edge of the left 
screen while using the right screen

When the screen saver comes on the mouse is still visible in the left screen
It doesn't fix the problem when the screen comes back
(thought I'd mention that because I've seen it said elsewhere)

It maybe happens when mplayer is playing fullscreen
(so a fullscreen app may be needed to activate the bug)
Of course when the problem wasn't there I was using the current mplayer version 
constantly also

The first dmesg error was:
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002 0x01)

followed by lots of the cursor messages (both 'hiding' and 'unhiding')

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On 2010-07-28T06:16:26+00:00 Andrew wrote:

Minor updates on previous post:
I only boot runlevel 3 and thus always use startx
(as user "root")

Once the problem has occurred:
X menu System->"Log Out root..." fails to go back to the console
(the screen clears to just showing the backgrounds and then stops)

OS is of course unaffected by this - ssh login works fine
(I use that to "shutdown -r now")

I've rolled back to xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2ef
again (nothing else changed) and will report if it happens again with this
version

Logout messages of Xorg.0.log (before logout stops):

(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
(II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
(II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
(II) Wacom BambooFun 6x8: removing automatically added devices.
(II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
(II) Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM): Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) NOUVEAU(0): NVLeaveVT is called.
(II) NOUVEAU(0): Closed GPU channel 2

No errors seem to be reported in that log

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On 2010-07-30T03:39:59+00:00 Andrew wrote:

Also now had the same problem occur with the older RPM:
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2ef

Also, the fullscreen app (mplayer) was not running when it occurred.

Had the same messages for dmesg, /var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log as 
before.
(except no cursor hide/unhide messages)

This time I also got the extra shutdown message (after trying to logout)
dmesg:
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 2
/var/log/messages:
Jul 30 12:34:08 ... kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: 
freeing fifo 2

However, I have found another problem with my system that may have something to 
do with the nouveau bug presenting itself.
My USB mouse is possibly failing and switches on and off sometimes ... easy for 
me to see while dragging windows around, because it sometimes lets go of a 
window but I haven't released the left mouse button
(I only realised what was going on after my previous comments)

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On 2010-10-02T00:53:35+00:00 David wrote:

Created attachment 451152
Provide info on the Evo channel in debugfs

I was able to do some debugging on this issue today, and have a mosly
reproducible test case (~90-95%) on my laptop (also using an external
monitor). Here's nouveau's spiel about the card on boot of the
2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 kernel.

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x086900a2)
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... appears to be valid
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BIT BIOS found
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Bios version 60.86.68.00
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: TMDS table revision 2.0 not currently supported
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 4.0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000323 00010034
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02011300 00000028
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 02022312 00010010
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 010333f1 00c0c070
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 4: 0000000e 00000000
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x40 5 14 2
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   0: 0x00000041: type 0x41 idx 0 tag 0xff
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown type, using 0x40
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   1: 0x00000100: type 0x00 idx 1 tag 0xff
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   2: 0x00001255: type 0x55 idx 2 tag 0x07
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown type, using 0x31
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   3: 0x00000310: type 0x10 idx 3 tag 0xff
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   4: 0x00000311: type 0x11 idx 4 tag 0xff
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:   5: 0x00000313: type 0x13 idx 5 tag 0xff
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xC11C
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xC486
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xD0C7
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xD1B9
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xD3B3
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0xD418
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD418: Condition still not met after 20ms, 
skipping following opcodes
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xB1D6: parsing output script 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xB34C: parsing output script 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xA228: parsing output script 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected 256MiB VRAM
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DCB encoder 1 unknown
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: TV-1 has no encoders, removing
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gpio tag 0xff not found
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gpio tag 0xff not found
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 1
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: allocated 1920x1200 fb: 0x40230000, bo 
ffff8800790a2400
fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xB083: parsing clock script 0
fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xB199: parsing clock script 1
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x1085: parsing clock script 0
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 2
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 2


I find that as we rewind the Evo's push buffer, we somehow trigger a display 
error, giving the message we've come to hate:

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002
0x01)

So far, this is closely correlated with the driver setting the ring to jump to 
offset 0 and wait for it to come out of the SKIPS (line 297 in nouveau.git's 
nouveau_dma.c -- commit 0100828245). I have never seen the error message 
without a wrap of the Evo ring, and some 30+ occurring in close proximity.
I instrumented the code, and we usually wrap at about index 0x3f9 or 0x3fb, and 
evo->dma.cur is 0x27 when the message is printed. It's usually 
nv50_cursor_show() or nv50_cursor_hide() that is running at the time.

The quickest way for me to reproduce this has been to boot, log into
GNOME, open a few terminal windows, and watch
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/channels/evo. I find that locking/unlocking the
screen with the blank screen saver adds about ~0x120 to the current
location each iteration. Once I'm close to a wrap, I move the mouse
between the windows, which advances cur by ~0x20 or so until it wraps.

Once we get a wrap and the error message, the GPU's get location for
this channel will be forever 0. We'll continue to put commands in the
ring, and once we fill it again, we'll start timing out in READ_GET()
and that causes the stuttering mouse movements.

I've gone about as far as I can, I think. I currently don't have the
knowledge to figure out why we get the display error on most wraps but
not all. It is perhaps timing related -- using nouveau_bo_rd32() on the
push buffer to verify contents after we do the
WRITE_PUT(NOUVEAU_DMA_SKIPS) made it 3 wraps before it died once, but
then it died on the first wrap the next boot.

If you guys can give me a pointer as to where to look next, I'm game.
Until then, I hope this helps.

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On 2010-10-02T07:52:04+00:00 Laurence wrote:

Wow, I'm impressed, many thanks for getting that.  FWIW I always have at
least 10 xterms open and "xlock -mode blank" is my screensaver, so I
always saw the issue after a couple of days at most.

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On 2010-10-18T00:16:39+00:00 Steve wrote:

I'm adding a 'me too' to this bug under F13.

Dual Screens, when manifested cursor has issues drawing on left hand
screen, appears ok on right hand screen.

lspci;
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] 
(rev a2)

Driver;
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-8.20100423git13c1043.fc13.i686

happens with 2 hours of a reboot under kernel-PAE-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686,
can take several days with kernel-PAE-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686.

/var/log/messages
Oct 18 11:09:00 cbr-sjw-dt kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 
0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002 0x01)

Happy to work with people on this one, it's making this workstation
nearly unusable.

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On 2010-10-28T20:28:59+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

I have not seen the original behaviour I reported since long, but now
that I switched to F14 I guess the best course of action is to close
this report and let users on a different release (this was for F12,
which is EOL in about one month anyway) or different cards from mine
open more specific bug reports.

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On 2010-10-28T22:01:13+00:00 Stefan wrote:

Same for me. Has not happened once in a very long time (more than 6
months).

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On 2010-10-29T01:26:21+00:00 Andrew wrote:

Still happening every so often on F12
(I swapped the flaky mouse out long ago)

Current nouveau is:
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-21.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64

Really is annoying sometimes to have to kill everything and shut down to
fix the problem

(I've ALWAYS booted 'init 3' on all Linux servers because I don't think 
graphics drivers should be needed to boot a server ... the drivers for a while 
now have been forced upon us even during an 'init 3' boot ... but I've also had 
'init 3' on all my desktops too ... pity it doesn't help with this problem.
My other F12 desktop - dual screen LCD + TV connected - uses that 'other' 
driver - obviously due to TV-Out - and though I don't work on it much - just 
for playing DVD's or other videos - I've still never had this problem with it)

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On 2010-10-29T01:29:51+00:00 Jerry wrote:

I still see the behavior I reported (see comment 35) on F-13 once in
awhile.  Steve Walsh (comment 44) appears to be seeing the same thing.
I'll ask again: is this really the same bug?  If not, perhaps bug 548545
should be revived.

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On 2010-11-04T06:29:52+00:00 Bug wrote:


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On 2010-11-04T10:52:22+00:00 Laurence wrote:

I use Slackware, this has got nothing to do with Fedora 12, if this bug
gets closed I'm giving up on this and switching to the closed nvidia
driver.

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On 2010-11-04T11:48:43+00:00 Jóhann wrote:

Please respect the maintainer and dont be rude.

You should be aware of the fact that this bugzilla instance is to be
used with RHEL and Fedora only not for everydistro out there so please
file your report either to slackware bugzilla instance if they have one
or directly upstream with the nouveau maintainers.

However you are welcome to download the latest Fedora release ( 14 )
install it and try to see if you still experience this problem and if so
you can make note of that on this bug.

Thank you.

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On 2010-11-04T11:54:14+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

As the original reporter, I need to note this was for a specific version
of nuoveau (the one in F12) with my specific card (with ID in the
summary) and that I did not experience anymore mouse movement issues
(now I'm on F14, no issues there as well)

If you are running any other combo, I advice to open another, separate
report

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On 2010-11-04T12:06:22+00:00 David wrote:

Created attachment 457771
Band-aid patch that solves the problem for me

Continuing the work I started in comment 42, I was also seeing the "EvoCh 0 Mthd
0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002 0x01)" messages as everyone else. I did more 
investigation, and found that not using the last 32 bytes of the Evo ring 
buffer solved the issue for me -- I no longer get the EvoCh messages, which 
directly lead to the "no space" messages as seen by the original report and the 
jerky mouse movements reported by others. This bug is current as of F13, and is 
likely in F14 and rawhide, as the issue is not yet fixed upstream.

Prior to the patch, dma.max was getting the value 1022. &'ing with ~7
was equivalent to subtracting another 6 entries from that value. I also
tried ~3, but that did not fix the issue. I was asked on IRC to try
subtracting 5, 4 etc to narrow down the minimum value, and my testing
confirmed that subtracting 6 (&= ~7) was minimal. I also tried changing
some of the register settings above (NV50_PDISPLAY_CHANNEL_UNK2, etc)
but was not successful in teasing out meaning or a fix using them. I
have not tried playing with the RAMHT for Evo.

I don't like that my patch involves yet more magic numbers without
explanation, but it has been stable for me for the past few weeks, and
solves my cursor problem.

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On 2010-11-04T12:10:24+00:00 David wrote:

Created attachment 457773
Test program that provokes the problem

This program hides/unhides the cursor for the number of cycles given on
the command line, default 1. I use this to push the Evo channel's index
through the rewind and expose the EvoCh messages. It's much easier than
moving the cursor from window to window for a while until things wrap.
With my patch, this survives thousands of iterations.

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On 2010-11-04T22:30:59+00:00 Gianluca wrote:

Reassigning to 13 as suggested by Ben on IRC; that will avoid the auto-
close.

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On 2010-11-08T19:37:44+00:00 Matthew wrote:

(In reply to comment #54)
> Created attachment 457773 [details]
> Test program that provokes the problem
> 
> This program hides/unhides the cursor for the number of cycles given on the
> command line, default 1. I use this to push the Evo channel's index through 
> the
> rewind and expose the EvoCh messages. It's much easier than moving the cursor
> from window to window for a while until things wrap. With my patch, this
> survives thousands of iterations.

Can you give the list of libs needed to build the program ?

Thanks.

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On 2010-11-08T20:11:29+00:00 David wrote:

(In reply to comment #56)
> (In reply to comment #54)
> > This program hides/unhides the cursor for the number of cycles given on the
> > command line, default 1. I use this to push the Evo channel's index through 
> > the
> > rewind and expose the EvoCh messages. It's much easier than moving the 
> > cursor
> > from window to window for a while until things wrap. With my patch, this
> > survives thousands of iterations.
> 
> Can you give the list of libs needed to build the program ?
> 
> Thanks.

cc -o cycle_cursor -O3 -Wall cycle_cursor.c -lX11

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On 2010-11-10T21:53:46+00:00 Laurence wrote:

David, I've been using your patch in comment 53 and it's resolved the
issue for me too, thank you very much.

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On 2010-11-10T22:14:04+00:00 Costantino wrote:

I experienced the same problem on Fedora 14: "no space while unhiding cursor".
This issue is very annoying because the system becomes so slow that I need to 
restart it.

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On 2010-11-18T10:30:14+00:00 Costantino wrote:

I'd like to test the patch in comment 53, but I cannot find nv50_display.c.
I've installed the kernel sources (yum install kernel-devel) but the folder 
"/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau" is empty.

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On 2010-11-18T10:39:45+00:00 Costantino wrote:

I think that the Severity and Priority for this bug should be higher,
because, when it occurs, the system becomes so slow that is almost
unusable and on my laptop occurs every day.

My video card is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [Quadro FX 880M] 
(rev a2)

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On 2010-11-18T21:30:24+00:00 Matthew wrote:

I'm having the invisible cursor issue and the cycle_cursor app doesn't
help with that problem.

I'm not seeing ANY errors in either the .xsession_errors file or in
/var/log/messages* .

00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce
6100] (rev a2)

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On 2010-11-19T08:22:44+00:00 Ben wrote:

(In reply to comment #62)
> I'm having the invisible cursor issue and the cycle_cursor app doesn't help
> with that problem.
> 
> I'm not seeing ANY errors in either the .xsession_errors file or in
> /var/log/messages* .
> 
> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev
> a2)

This one is actually a hardware bug, and not related in any way.

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On 2010-11-19T15:15:15+00:00 Dario wrote:

I don't know if my issue is related to this bug, but on my laptop
(Compal JFL92) with a 8600M GT card, kernel 2.6.35.8-60 killed my sound.
Pulseaudio no more sees the sound card (HDA Intel) and falls back to
dummy audio output. No problem at all with 2.6.35.8-59. I'm not sure if
this is the right bug to report it, as the kernel changelog reads:

* Fri Nov 19 2010 Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com> 2.6.35.8-60 
- nouveau: add quirk for iMac G4 (rhbz#505161) 
- nouveau: add workaround for display hang on GF8+ (rhbz#537065) 
- nouveau: don't reject 3D object creation on NVAF (MBA3) 

but this seems the only one related to my hardware.
dmesg doesn't report anything suspicious, but I'm available for any further 
testing on this issue.

This on F14 x86_64.

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On 2010-11-19T17:42:13+00:00 Matthew wrote:

(In reply to comment #63)
> (In reply to comment #62)
> > I'm having the invisible cursor issue and the cycle_cursor app doesn't help
> > with that problem.
> > 
> > I'm not seeing ANY errors in either the .xsession_errors file or in
> > /var/log/messages* .
> > 
> > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] 
> > (rev
> > a2)
> 
> This one is actually a hardware bug, and not related in any way.

Odd, Since in Fedora 12 it worked fine (cursor showed up without any
issues).   It only seemed to happen after a certain point.  Next time I
have to reboot, I'll swap to an external card vs. the built in video).

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On 2010-11-20T08:56:54+00:00 Ben wrote:

(In reply to comment #64)
> I don't know if my issue is related to this bug, but on my laptop (Compal
> JFL92) with a 8600M GT card, kernel 2.6.35.8-60 killed my sound. Pulseaudio no
> more sees the sound card (HDA Intel) and falls back to dummy audio output. No
> problem at all with 2.6.35.8-59. I'm not sure if this is the right bug to
> report it, as the kernel changelog reads:
> 
> * Fri Nov 19 2010 Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com> 2.6.35.8-60 
> - nouveau: add quirk for iMac G4 (rhbz#505161) 
> - nouveau: add workaround for display hang on GF8+ (rhbz#537065) 
> - nouveau: don't reject 3D object creation on NVAF (MBA3) 
> 
> but this seems the only one related to my hardware.
> dmesg doesn't report anything suspicious, but I'm available for any further
> testing on this issue.
> 
> This on F14 x86_64.
What was your previous kernel?  I don't see how these changes could possibly 
cause what you see.

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On 2010-11-20T08:58:35+00:00 Ben wrote:

(In reply to comment #65)
> (In reply to comment #63)
> > (In reply to comment #62)
> > > I'm having the invisible cursor issue and the cycle_cursor app doesn't 
> > > help
> > > with that problem.
> > > 
> > > I'm not seeing ANY errors in either the .xsession_errors file or in
> > > /var/log/messages* .
> > > 
> > > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] 
> > > (rev
> > > a2)
> > 
> > This one is actually a hardware bug, and not related in any way.
> 
> Odd, Since in Fedora 12 it worked fine (cursor showed up without any issues). 
>  
> It only seemed to happen after a certain point.  Next time I have to reboot,
> I'll swap to an external card vs. the built in video).

I guess it's possible something in nouveau now triggers the hw bug more
reliably.  All previous reports indicate that it would usually come up
find, and disappear randomly at some point until a reboot.  I used to
have the effected hardware (the machine has since died), and even the
NVIDIA binary driver could not bring it back once it went.

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On 2010-11-20T12:00:31+00:00 Dario wrote:

(In reply to comment #66)
> (In reply to comment #64)
> > I don't know if my issue is related to this bug, but on my laptop (Compal
> > JFL92) with a 8600M GT card, kernel 2.6.35.8-60 killed my sound. Pulseaudio 
> > no
> > more sees the sound card (HDA Intel) and falls back to dummy audio output. 
> > No
> > problem at all with 2.6.35.8-59. I'm not sure if this is the right bug to
> > report it, as the kernel changelog reads:
> > 
> > * Fri Nov 19 2010 Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com> 2.6.35.8-60 
> > - nouveau: add quirk for iMac G4 (rhbz#505161) 
> > - nouveau: add workaround for display hang on GF8+ (rhbz#537065) 
> > - nouveau: don't reject 3D object creation on NVAF (MBA3) 
> > 
> > but this seems the only one related to my hardware.
> > dmesg doesn't report anything suspicious, but I'm available for any further
> > testing on this issue.
> > 
> > This on F14 x86_64.
> What was your previous kernel?  I don't see how these changes could possibly
> cause what you see.

Previous kernel was 2.6.35-59, and audio still works if I boot it. Yeah
I know, it's weird. I'm looking after getting some more info about it,
but I doubt I'll have time today...

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On 2010-11-21T01:19:42+00:00 Dario wrote:

(In reply to comment #68)
> (In reply to comment #66)
> > (In reply to comment #64)
> > > I don't know if my issue is related to this bug, but on my laptop (Compal
> > > JFL92) with a 8600M GT card, kernel 2.6.35.8-60 killed my sound. 
> > > Pulseaudio no
> > > more sees the sound card (HDA Intel) and falls back to dummy audio 
> > > output. No
> > > problem at all with 2.6.35.8-59. I'm not sure if this is the right bug to
> > > report it, as the kernel changelog reads:
> > > 
> > > * Fri Nov 19 2010 Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com> 2.6.35.8-60 
> > > - nouveau: add quirk for iMac G4 (rhbz#505161) 
> > > - nouveau: add workaround for display hang on GF8+ (rhbz#537065) 
> > > - nouveau: don't reject 3D object creation on NVAF (MBA3) 
> > > 
> > > but this seems the only one related to my hardware.
> > > dmesg doesn't report anything suspicious, but I'm available for any 
> > > further
> > > testing on this issue.
> > > 
> > > This on F14 x86_64.
> > What was your previous kernel?  I don't see how these changes could possibly
> > cause what you see.
> 
> Previous kernel was 2.6.35-59, and audio still works if I boot it. Yeah I 
> know,
> it's weird. I'm looking after getting some more info about it, but I doubt 
> I'll
> have time today...

Sorry disregard my bug report, I verified it's a problem with the new
dracut update that triggers when a new initramfs is built, not a kernel
problem. Coincidentally the two things overlapped on my system. Sorry
for wasting your time.

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On 2010-11-23T13:11:15+00:00 Costantino wrote:

As I already asked, how may I find nv50_display.c to try the patch in
comment 53?

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On 2010-11-23T22:23:42+00:00 Ben wrote:

(In reply to comment #70)
> As I already asked, how may I find nv50_display.c to try the patch in comment
> 53?

You don't need to, it's in kernel-2.6.35.8-60.fc14
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=205566)

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On 2010-11-24T09:01:38+00:00 Costantino wrote:

Okay, thanks a lot!
I still have the kernel 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64. 

The kernel-2.6.35.8-60 is still a release candidate. May I install it
simple by downloading the rpm or it's better that I wait for the
official release (is there already a date?) and then updating with yum?

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On 2010-11-26T17:51:13+00:00 Costantino wrote:

I've now installed the newer kernel (2.6.35.8-60). I let you known, if
the problem ("no space while unhiding cursor") occurs again.

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On 2010-12-17T15:15:14+00:00 Costantino wrote:

I'm using the newer kernel (2.6.35.8-60) for about one month and I
haven't experienced the problem above ("no space while unhiding cursor")
any more.

In my opinion this problem is fixed. Thanks a lot!

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** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Fedora)
       Status: Unknown => Won't Fix

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Fedora)
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Title:
  mouse usage causes Xorg CPU usage to spike, and mouse pointer becomes
  less responsive

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Fedora:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xorg

  Over time, my mouse pointer becomes more and more erratic and
  unresponsive.  It never becomes unusable, but it gets jerky and hard
  to use.  If I run 'top', I can watch Xorg CPU usage spike in direct
  correlation to how much I move the mouse around (and the mouse
  performance gets worse while I'm doing this).  If I wave the mouse
  pointer around a lot, CPU will reliably hit 100%, and the pointer will
  be far behind my physical gestures with the mouse (and will continue
  to move for a while after I stop moving the mouse).  CPU climbs back
  down after I stop moving the mouse.

  When I first log in, everything is fine.  This problem gets worse the
  longer I stay in the same X Session.  I haven't tried logging out back
  to GDM and logging back in; if you need me to I can try that.

  Switching between windows / desktops is also increasingly sluggish.

  This is all on  Ubuntu lucid (development branch).

  I don't know if this is related to any of these bugs:

    bug #439138
    bug #433802

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 5e7a695a9deba63c8a14a741c27a2f28
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Thu Apr  8 15:08:28 2010
  DkmsStatus:
   bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.31-20-generic, i686: installed
   bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-19-generic, i686: installed
   bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-17-generic, i686: installed
   bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-18-generic, i686: installed
  MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
  ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=2eed5674-1b11-4434-85be-b09c3986a095 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  dmi.bios.date: 11/19/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A14
  dmi.board.name: 0U8042
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd11/19/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U8042:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
  system:
   distro:             Ubuntu
   codename:           lucid
   architecture:       i686
   kernel:             2.6.32-19-generic

  [lspci]
  00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory 
Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0209]
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 
8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0209]

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