Bug#608343: installation-reports: nouveau makes display unusable (GeForce 5200 FX)
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:19 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> 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.
An update on this... the situation is the same with Linux 3.1. I also
swapped out the monitor without any luck. Finally, I booted the Fedora
16 live CD and got the same 'video mode not supported' message.
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Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
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