Re: strange happenings with new system build

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

FWIW,, I'm currently using an unsupported-because-its-too-new video
card to make the machine almost useable.  The genfb attributes have
a poor aspect ratio, and everything is too large, but at least it's
not crashing or hanging.  :)  Hopefully, the new Radeon display card
I ordered will be useable.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
> > Well, I just built me a new toy and it mostly works just fine.  But
> > there are some mostly display-related strangenesses...
> >
> > The entire dmesg for the new build is attaached.  dmesg for the old
> > machine is not available since I had to cannabilize some parts.  As
> > a summary, the new build is a amd64 `` AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D'' with
> > 128GB of DDR5 on an Asus ROG Crosshair Hero motherboard
> >
> > 1. Using the same video card as from the original machine (identified
> >   ``NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti''), a normal boot fails to complete
>
> s/1050/1080/
>
> >   the initial mode-set that occurs during auto-config.  The bottom
> >   25% or so of the screen is broken up into 4 sets of "garbage"
> >   (looks like bar code, but not really), and blind typing results in
> >   scrolling of the 25% section, 1 set at a time.  After about 10 or
> >   15 minutes, it suddenly starts working and displays the usual xdm
> >   login dialog!
> >
> > 2. Things will go along nicely for (some value of) a while, and then
> >   suddenly switching to the console (via ctrl-alt-f1) hangs.  This,
> >   too, eventually unhangs
> >
> > 3. There's a dwiic0 attached via acpi, and an iic0 attached to the
> >   dwiic0.  The attach seems to succeed, but approximately 17 seconds
> >   later, immediately after a USB4 HCI fails to attach, I start to
> >   get a flurry of
> >
> > 	dwiic0: timed out waiting for rx_full intr
> > 	dwiic0: timed out reading remaining 0
> >
> >   The messages always come in pairs, and there is roughly a 0.5sec
> >   interval between pairs.  In total, there are about 150 pairs, then
> >   the messages just stop.
> >
> > 4. There are lots of nouveau0 errors, and they seem to correspond to
> >   mode-switch attempts:
> >
> > [  1796.949817] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: core 
> > notifier timeout
> > [  1826.944253] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: core 
> > notifier timeout
> > [  1887.113245] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: base-0: 
> > timeout
> > [  1889.114196] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: core 
> > notifier timeout
> > [  1891.115161] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: core 
> > notifier timeout
> > [  1893.196173] nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: DRM: core 
> > notifier timeout
> >
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