> >
> >
>
> Build nouveau as module, blacklist it by default and system will start
> using VESA. You can later modprobe it and check the status.
> --
Thanks, I'll try that.
jb.
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On 07/02/2012 10:07 PM, John Burrell wrote:
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>
>
>>
>> nomodeset disables kms. KMS = kernel mode setting. No Mode Set(ting) =
>> No KMS. Seems legit, doesn't it?
>> --
> OIC. I had to do that to get it to boot - otherwise I got hypnotized by the
> pretty colors. May be after I've upgraded, the gr
John Burrell wrote:
> I'm not desperate to use a nouveau driver, I'm sure a proprietary one
> will do fine. But having started out on this nouveau adventure, it
> would be interesting to see where it leads.
That's what I thought too. For my primary system, I just couldn't live
with the open sou
>
> nomodeset disables kms. KMS = kernel mode setting. No Mode Set(ting) =
> No KMS. Seems legit, doesn't it?
> --
OIC. I had to do that to get it to boot - otherwise I got hypnotized by the
pretty colors. May be after I've upgraded, the graphics card will be recognized
and I can remove the no
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:59:24 -0500
> From: bruce.du...@gmail.com
> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] problem with the drm nouveau kernel modules
>
> John Burrell wrote:
>
> > 03:00.0 VGA co
On 07/02/2012 08:55 PM, John Burrell wrote:
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>
>>
>> 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 reache
John Burrell wrote:
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8700M GT]
> (rev a1)
>>
> Armin suggests I make some upgrades. Guess I should go ahead and try that.
Yes, you can, but I found both nv and nouveau unsatisfactory on my
GeForce 9800 GTX because both were ex
>
> 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
> ad
>
> What happens if you change to the "nv" driver?
It works normally. Here's the relevant bit in the xorg log:
[ 21.365] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[ 21.365] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
[ 21.380] (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 21.380] compiled for
On 2.7.2012 17:34, John Burrell wrote:
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>>
>> I'm not sure which card you have.
> It's a GeForce 8700M GT apparently.
>>
>
> I had to add nomodeset as a kernel parameter to get the machine to boot and
> avoid the cycling color screens.
>
>> You do have to be careful when building the kernel not t
John Burrell wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure which card you have.
> It's a GeForce 8700M GT apparently.
>>
>
> I had to add nomodeset as a kernel parameter to get the machine to boot and
> avoid the cycling color screens.
>
>> You do have to be careful when building the kernel not to include nvidia
>>
>
> I'm not sure which card you have.
It's a GeForce 8700M GT apparently.
>
I had to add nomodeset as a kernel parameter to get the machine to boot and
avoid the cycling color screens.
> You do have to be careful when building the kernel not to include nvidia
> drivers.
There is nothing with *
John Burrell wrote:
>
> My latest build is LFS-SVN-20120623. When I loaded x-7.7-1 on top I
> found that the latest nvidia proprietary driver, 295.59, locked up
> the GPU. May be the optimizations are incompatible with the latest
> xorg-server - who knows?
I'm not sure which card you have. On my
My latest build is LFS-SVN-20120623. When I loaded x-7.7-1 on top I found that
the latest nvidia proprietary driver, 295.59, locked up the GPU. May be the
optimizations are incompatible with the latest xorg-server - who knows?
I thought I'd try the nouveau driver in the BLFS book so I compiled
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