On 07/02/2012 08:55 PM, John Burrell wrote: > > >> >> Looking at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/, your video >> card is NV50 family and also looking at nouveau debug info, the driver >> you are using does not support it. Also, nouveau driver has improved >> vastly, it has even reached 1.0.1 release. BLFS snapshot is older one, I >> added it because that was latest one that could build against libdrm >> 2.4.33. I would suggest that you first try using kernel 3.4, nouveau >> 1.0.1, libdrm >= 2.4.34 and mesa 8.1 git snapshot first to make sure it >> is not your card that is faulty. > > okay, thanks for that. I'll try upgrading and see what happens >> >> And at last, you said you disabled KMS, and also according to nouveau >> wiki, KMS support is required for Xorg driver to work. > > Sorry, I don't remember disabling KMS - when did I do that? How do I tell the > state of KMS? > > jb. > >
nomodeset disables kms. KMS = kernel mode setting. No Mode Set(ting) = No KMS. Seems legit, doesn't it? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page