Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:57:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's why I suggested to log in from a second computer via ssh. 
>>>>> It's hard to do anything with a blank screen.
>>>>
>>>> I guess blacklisting nouveau module should have be done from "init 1"
>>>> with no running X session at all.
>>> 
>>> Booting with "init 1" does not prevent the module from being loaded.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> I haven't expressed myself right. I didn't want to say "booting at init
>> 1 to prevent the nuvó module from being loaded" but once the system has
>> booted (with KMS disabled) jump to "init 1" and blacklist the module
>> from there.
> 
> There is no reason why you would need to switch to runlevel 1 for that.

Neither to avoid losing X and preventing Xorg from going nuts? :-)

> Besides, changing the bootloader configuration to permanently add the
> "nomodeset" kernel parameter might be better than blacklisting the
> module.

Why do you think "nvidia" nor "nuvó" are not going to work? Because 
working with VESA does not look like a sane option nowadays :-(

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón