John Burrell wrote:
> Thanks for your input. All the items you mention were covered at some
> point in the discussion. Armin confirmed that all the software
> components associated with the nouveau driver were performing as
> expected - at least as far as he could tell from the logs. There
> didn'
> In the first or second mail with this topic, you wrote that you
> installed, among other things, the kernel module from the nouveau site.
>
> There is no need to do this.
>
> The kernel side of the nouveau driver suite has been added to the
> mainline kernel tree about a year ago and a month or
>On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:53:27 +
>John Burrell wrote:
> You're right, it makes no difference and of course setting acpi=off
> means the nouveau module is not loaded and it falls back to using
> vesa.
>
> I guess this will have to stay as one of those quirky things that
> doesn't have an obvio
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:24 +0200, Armin K. wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 07:53 PM, John Burrell wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Are CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP and CONFIG_DELL_WMI set as Y or M in your kernel
> >> config?
> >
> > CONFIG_DELL_WMI is set as a module. I don't see CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP
>
> In 3.4 kernel, it is loc
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:53:27PM +, John Burrell wrote:
>
> Thanks for your time and comments Armin and thanks to everyone who
> contributed to this thread - it's much appreciated.
>
From your earlier post, I had the impression that the display went
weird when you ran startx ? If that is
On 07/18/2012 07:53 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>> Are CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP and CONFIG_DELL_WMI set as Y or M in your kernel
>> config?
>
> CONFIG_DELL_WMI is set as a module. I don't see CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP
In 3.4 kernel, it is located under "x86 specific drivers" or whatever.
It is marked as "DELL
> Are CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP and CONFIG_DELL_WMI set as Y or M in your kernel
> config?
CONFIG_DELL_WMI is set as a module. I don't see CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP
>
> Anyways, you can try adding acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor to your
> kernel command line. I doubt it will change anything, but it's wor
On 07/18/2012 05:08 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
Could you post your dmesg output (or /var/log/kern.log from last boot)
after nouveau starts to misbehave?
>>>
>>> I think I'd have to email it to you because it's more that 50 KB. Is that
>>> okay?
>>
>> Sure, no problem. Note that you can
> >> Could you post your dmesg output (or /var/log/kern.log from last boot)
> >> after nouveau starts to misbehave?
> >
> > I think I'd have to email it to you because it's more that 50 KB. Is that
> > okay?
>
> Sure, no problem. Note that you can always compress the log. xz -9 can
> work very w
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:04:47PM +, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:24:50PM +, John Burrell wrote:
> > > Any suggestions which keys sequences to try? The only one I've found to
> > > work so far is
> > > Alt+sysRQ+b which reboots the machine - not a lot of us
On 07/18/2012 01:02 AM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>
>>> So should I do startx and then try pressing different keys while it's
>>> cycling through the colors?
>>> Any suggestions which keys sequences to try? The only one I've found to
>>> work so far is
>>> Alt+sysRQ+b which reboots the machine - no
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:24:50PM +, John Burrell wrote:
> > Any suggestions which keys sequences to try? The only one I've found to
> > work so far is
> > Alt+sysRQ+b which reboots the machine - not a lot of use really.
> >
> To have a better chance of saving the logs :
> Alt-SysRQ-s (
> > So should I do startx and then try pressing different keys while it's
> > cycling through the colors?
> > Any suggestions which keys sequences to try? The only one I've found to
> > work so far is
> > Alt+sysRQ+b which reboots the machine - not a lot of use really.
> >
> > jb.
> >
> >
>
>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:24:50PM +, John Burrell wrote:
> Any suggestions which keys sequences to try? The only one I've found to work
> so far is
> Alt+sysRQ+b which reboots the machine - not a lot of use really.
>
To have a better chance of saving the logs :
Alt-SysRQ-s (sync), wait for
On 07/17/2012 11:24 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>
>>> okay lsmod.log from Ubuntu attached.
>>
>> Hm. I've never seen most of the stuff you have there. But from that, I
>> see the laptop is Dell. Have you selected laptop extras like WMI and
>> such in your kernel? Also, it would be nice for you to b
>On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:47:35 +0200
>"Armin K." wrote:
> Yay, you missed the world. This is LFS, it does not use initrd ...
>
> And blacklisting nouveau does not disable KMS, it just disables the
> driver from loading automatically by udev. That way you can boot
> using VESA. Nouveau gets loade
> > okay lsmod.log from Ubuntu attached.
>
> Hm. I've never seen most of the stuff you have there. But from that, I
> see the laptop is Dell. Have you selected laptop extras like WMI and
> such in your kernel? Also, it would be nice for you to build udev from
> BLFS in order to get keymap featur
On 07/17/2012 11:04 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>> you could post lsmod output from Ubuntu so someone could guide you to
>> check if you have necesary kernel stuff on your LFS kernel. Laptops have
>> been always complicated when it comes to Linux (well, newer ones).
>
> okay lsmod.log from Ubuntu a
> you could post lsmod output from Ubuntu so someone could guide you to
> check if you have necesary kernel stuff on your LFS kernel. Laptops have
> been always complicated when it comes to Linux (well, newer ones).
okay lsmod.log from Ubuntu attached.
M
On 07/17/2012 10:45 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Have you ever tried using nouveau with Ubuntu? Did it have same behaviour?
>
> No, I've not messed around with Ubuntu at all. I don't think I have the
> expertise to start playing around with it. I'd have to be held by the hand to
> know how t
>
> Have you ever tried using nouveau with Ubuntu? Did it have same behaviour?
No, I've not messed around with Ubuntu at all. I don't think I have the
expertise to start playing around with it. I'd have to be held by the hand to
know how to use nouveau instead of nvidia.
I could blacklist nvi
On 07/17/2012 10:24 PM, Maginot Junior wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Maginot Junior wrote:
>>
>>> You need the video drivers to have KMS working, you can't simple use
>>> KMS without nouveau (nvidia boards). Actually, any nvidia proprietary
>>> driver can't run wi
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Maginot Junior wrote:
>
>> You need the video drivers to have KMS working, you can't simple use
>> KMS without nouveau (nvidia boards). Actually, any nvidia proprietary
>> driver can't run with nouveau.
>
> That's true.
>
>> You need the initrd
Maginot Junior wrote:
> You need the video drivers to have KMS working, you can't simple use
> KMS without nouveau (nvidia boards). Actually, any nvidia proprietary
> driver can't run with nouveau.
That's true.
> You need the initrd updated to have the KMS/DRM modules from kernel
> since the ear
t;>>
>>>>> From: maginot.jun...@gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:56 -0300
>>>>> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to get the drm no
not.jun...@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:56 -0300
>>>> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to get the drm nouveau kernel
>>>> module loaded
>>>>
>>>> did you update y
gt; To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to get the drm nouveau kernel
>>> module loaded
>>>
>>> did you update your init ram disk?
>>
>> I didn't set aside a partition for a ramdisk so there is no
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:41 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> From: maginot.jun...@gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:56 -0300
>> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on
> From: maginot.jun...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:56 -0300
> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to get the drm nouveau kernel
> module loaded
>
> did you update your ini
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:13:46 +0200
>> From: kre...@email.com
>> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to g
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:13:46 +0200
> From: kre...@email.com
> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] more on trying to get the drm nouveau kernel
> module loaded
>
> On 07/17/2012 08:44 PM, John Bur
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 08:44 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>>
>> I installed the latest git versions of libdrm, mesalib and the kernel
>> modules from the nouveau wiki site.
>>
>> I blacklisted the nouveau module so I could boot the machine. KMS is
>> therefor
On 07/17/2012 08:44 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
> I installed the latest git versions of libdrm, mesalib and the kernel modules
> from the nouveau wiki site.
>
> I blacklisted the nouveau module so I could boot the machine. KMS is
> therefore enabled.
>
> When I do modprobe nouveau or startx I stil
did you update your init ram disk?
it will be necessary since kms runs from the very early stages of the
boot process...
--
Maginot Júnior
LPIC 3 - CCNA - CLA
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:44 PM, John Burrell wrote:
>
> I installed the latest git versions of libdrm, mesalib and the kernel modu
I installed the latest git versions of libdrm, mesalib and the kernel modules
from the nouveau wiki site.
I blacklisted the nouveau module so I could boot the machine. KMS is therefore
enabled.
When I do modprobe nouveau or startx I still get the cycling of the colored
screens.
startx now gi
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