Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display
On 2010-06-12 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> I have both xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and xser-xorg-video-fbdev
> installed (just confirmed it in aptitude), but it doesn't appear that
> they are being used.
I see. The latest xserver-xorg-core in sid uses nouveau by default, but
that version is not in squeeze yet (and will take some time to migrate
due to a dependency on a new libc6 on hppa).
> I did try using the 4-line minimal xorg.conf file suggested at the
> nouveau.freedesktop.org location to force nouveau to be used. When I
> booted I got a blue text-graphics screen which said that X had failed
> to start and which asked if I wanted to view the log (with a choice of
> yes / no). However, I didn't get a chance to answer because I was then
> unceremoniously dumped at the console logon prompt. I logged on as
> root and removed the 4-line file, and then everything was as it had
> been before.
It would be quite interesting to view the log with nouveau used as the X
driver.
> I would trying turning KMS off just to see if I could learn anything,
> but I haven't yet found out how to do it with a grub 2 system.
You may as well blacklist nouveau then, since it is completely useless
without KMS (the nouveau X driver requires KMS). Note, however, that
without an xorg.conf the most recent xserver-xorg-core will still load
the module.
Sven
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