Running testing, and using the nouveau driver for a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M GPU. X sporadically crashes to a black screen where things scroll by too fast for me to read. I’ve tried to examine kern.log and Xorg.0.log, as well as google searches. Xorg.0.log shows an error:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep EE
[ 51.593] (EE) Failed to load module “modesetting” (module does not exist, 0)
and three warnings:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep WW
[ 51.593] (WW) Warning, couldn’t open module modesetting
[ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 51.637] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
fbdev* and vesa are then unloaded:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep fbdev
[ 51.654] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
[ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev”
[ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw”
[ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
[ 51.628] (II) Module fbdev: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
[ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev”
[ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw”
[ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep vesa
[ 51.266] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[ 51.564] (II) LoadModule: “vesa”
[ 51.565] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 51.592] (II) Module vesa: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
[ 51.630] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “vesa”
[ 52.011] (II) Unloading vesa
KMS is enabled in the kernel:
cat /boot/config-3.10-3-686-pae|grep -i kms
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y
Might any of this be related to the X crash? I don’t think so, but then ...