NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 1GB, and linux-generic-lts-belenos with nouveau

Project:Trisquel
Version:6.0
Component:Kernel/drivers
Category:bug report
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

With linux-generic-lts-belenos. uname -a: Linux trisquel 3.5.0-25-generic #0trisquel1 SMP Thu Feb 28 02:58:43 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/var/log/syslog complains about nouveau:
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.445073] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected 1024MiB VRAM (DDR2)
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.445382] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.451227] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.451229] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.456451] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 1 available performance level(s)
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.456455] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 3: core 550MHz shader 1375MHz memory 300MHz fanspeed 100%
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.456458] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: c: core 400MHz shader 800MHz memory 300MHz fanspeed 40%
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.461617] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: MM: using CRYPT for buffer copies
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555694] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 239
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555696] Raw EDID:
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555698] 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 5f 20 70 01 20 00 02 20
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555699] 26 0d 01 03 78 22 1b 99 e8 06 92 a0 57 4f 87 26
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555701] 00 48 4f a5 6e 00 31 40 45 40 61 40 81 80 00 00
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555702] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fd 00 3c 3c 1e 41 0b
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555704] 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc 00 48 59 55
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555705] 4e 44 41 49 20 0a 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fc 00 43
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555707] 00 52 50 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.555708] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b9
May 8 09:39:09 trisquel kernel: [ 2.582164] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 239

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 19:20

Did a little search to see if I could find out what this is all about. Seems like a fairly common problem. Apparently, your monitor sucks.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg01607.html

Sounds like nothing to worry about though.