Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +0000, Richard wrote
> > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work
> > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work.
>
> > I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia cards as well, as I had to
> > black list it.
>
> Perhaps we could start a list of Nvidia cards that could cause any kind
> of issue with the nouveau driver.
>
> GeForce 7200 GS

Model: "nVidia GeForce 8400 GS"
I use 'nouveau.modeset=0' on the kernel cmdline and also blacklist nouveau.
But note that the latest udev (175-2) removes blacklist.conf, I put it 
back again.
What I find if I don't blacklist nouveau is that the nvidia driver gives 
an error when starting X.

Hugo