On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:30:23PM +0200, Michel Hermier 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> For now nothing, I think that creating a secondary initrd is out of the
> question.
> Just an idea like that, strictly speaking in our initrd we don't need most
> of the modules from the kernel. Maybe stripping the kernel to the modules
> really needed to boot and forcing an new hardware discovery after root
> change is the solution. Technically, I think we don't need video and
> sounds modules to be in the initrd at least. Maybe some other sub-systems
> could also be removed ?? Ruyo, vmiklos, comments on that ?

We need video modules, since modeset enables framebuffer and we start
plymouth from initrd. I would suggest adding a README.Frugalware to the
nvidia pkg, explaining the situation and to 'nomodeset' to the menu.lst
manually.

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