Bug#608343: installation-reports: nouveau makes display unusable (GeForce 5200 FX)
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 16:08 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > > Reassigning to the nouveau X driver. That may belong to the kernel
> > > > package but X maintainers will know this better than the installer
> > > > team..:)
> > > >
> > A. They don't know any better without seeing dmesg and X logs.
> >
> > Indeed, that was remiss of me. Here are the logs.
> >
> Thanks. It seems the kernel detects a monitor on VGA, is that correct?
> What resolution should it be using (1280x1024, from the EDID in the X
> log)? Could you try booting the kernel in experimental? Without X,
> since the kernel ABI changed so that won't work anyway, but just loading
> nouveau.ko should do the modeset dance and either give a black screen or
> a working console.
I've (finally!) gotten the chance to test this system with a new kernel.
I booted 3.0.0 from unstable but still get the same 'video mode not
supported' message from my monitor when the nouveau module is loaded.
> Cheers,
> Julien
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