Running testing, and using the nouveau driver for a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M GPU. X sporadically crashes to a black screen where things scroll by too fast for me to read. I’ve tried to examine kern.log and Xorg.0.log, as well as google searches. Xorg.0.log shows an error:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep EE [ 51.593] (EE) Failed to load module “modesetting” (module does not exist, 0) and three warnings: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep WW [ 51.593] (WW) Warning, couldn’t open module modesetting [ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa [ 51.637] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev fbdev* and vesa are then unloaded: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep fbdev [ 51.654] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev” [ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev [ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw” [ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw [ 51.628] (II) Module fbdev: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev” [ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev [ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw” [ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep vesa [ 51.266] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4 [ 51.564] (II) LoadModule: “vesa” [ 51.565] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so [ 51.592] (II) Module vesa: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” [ 51.630] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa [ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “vesa” [ 52.011] (II) Unloading vesa KMS is enabled in the kernel: cat /boot/config-3.10-3-686-pae|grep -i kms CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y Might any of this be related to the X crash? I don’t think so, but then ...
