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Upgrading from xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10-3 to xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11-1 causes X to crash when calling xrandr. I use xrandr to setup two monitors, so it makes the newest version of xf86-video-nouveau unusable for me.

This is an example of what causes xrandr to crash:

$ xrandr --output LVDS-1 --auto --primary --rotate left


I have attached the Xorg.0.log files from running X with xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10-3 and xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11-1. Everything pretty much looks the same. No big differences.

I have also attached the output of `startx`. Despite xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10-3 being the one that works with xrandr, it looks like it spits out a stack trace when exiting from X and going back to the console. (This, of course, causes no problems to me as a user because I've already exited X.)

If you look in the file startx-output-xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11-1, you can see the following suspicious lines:

resize called 1920 1920
/usr/bin/Xorg.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so: undefined symbol: exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate

I bet the "resize called" line is produced when calling `xrandr`, and then the following line is what actually causes X to crash.

After googling around for the cause, I only really found the following page:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1210316


Here is the output of `lscpi -v` for my card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116M [GeForce GT 560M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device 5102
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 54
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at f6000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau