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Re: NVIDIA - URGENT



On 2011-07-04 00:58 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200
> Hans Vogelsberger <li.vog@schwaz.net> wrote:
>
>>instead of moving 
>>/etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section "device" 
>>to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not 
>>even startx was necessary.
>
> I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver:
>
> [  1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> [  1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
> [  1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> [  1528.924] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
> [...]
> [  1529.044] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
> [  1529.044] (EE) No devices detected.
>
> It should work, though, GT200 series should be supported by nouveau.

Looks like Kernel Modesetting is disabled, either through a boot
parameter or via a file in /etc/modprobe.d.  Try reloading the nouveau
kernel module:

rmmod nouveau
nouveau modprobe modeset=1

and restart X.

Sven


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