FS#23213 - [kernel26/drm] Screen blinks randomly

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 10 March 2011, 03:11 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 22 August 2011, 05:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

The screen randomly blinks to black and then comes back within a second. Earlier it happened only when I logged in to GNOME, but in the past one or two months it happens randomly (especially on continuous CPU usage, in every 30/60/90th… seconds).

The error message on each blink from everything.log:
kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Load detected on output A

My video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)

Package versions:
kernel26 2.6.37.3-1
libdrm 2.4.23-2
xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16_git20101217-1
xorg-server 1.9.4-1
libgl 7.10.1-1
mesa 7.10.1-1

I think that this bug was reported to upstream by two another Arch Linux user:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34220
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34972
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 22 August 2011, 05:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  One reporter said in the upstream report it's fixed by cable replacement. No more responses in several months. Nothing we can do here.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 10 March 2011, 15:29 GMT
On some blinks the following message also shown in kernel everything.log:
kernel: i2c i2c-3: readbytes: ack/nak timeout
Comment by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Friday, 18 March 2011, 14:53 GMT
Confirmed, Geforce4 MX440 here...

Just an FYI: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/613281/
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Friday, 18 March 2011, 15:11 GMT
Currently I use a custom kernel with the above mentioned patch, and I get blink once a day only, not in every 30/60/90th seconds.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 18 March 2011, 16:15 GMT
Can you confirm that this is solved in kernel 2.6.38 from testing?
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Saturday, 19 March 2011, 04:17 GMT
I tested now, and this problem is still happens with kernel 2.6.38.
Comment by Urs Wolfer (uwolfer) - Monday, 21 March 2011, 18:31 GMT
I can confirm this issue with NV41.8 [GeForce Go 6800] and kernel26 2.6.37.4-1.
Comment by Roberto Catini (robcat) - Thursday, 24 March 2011, 18:26 GMT
Confirming the issue on nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS], kernel26 2.6.38-2, xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16_git20110316-2
On my computer the screen blinks every 10/15 seconds.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 24 March 2011, 18:38 GMT
CC'ed to the upstream report. Adding our kernel maintainers.
Comment by Bruno Berisso (GojaN) - Thursday, 28 April 2011, 01:25 GMT
Tow kernel versions are release and i still got this issue.
My system is GeForce 7100 GS, kernel 2.6.38-ARCH i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux, xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16_git20110316-2.

Where i can find some info?
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Thursday, 16 June 2011, 10:26 GMT
look at the upstream bugtracker
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 09:08 GMT
any update with 3.0?

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