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Bug#608343: installation-reports: nouveau makes display unusable (GeForce 5200 FX)



On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:13:13 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:

> reassign 608343 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> thanks
> 
> Quoting Sam Morris (sam@robots.org.uk):
> 
> > As soon as the 'nouveau' kernel module is loaded, the display only shows 'video
> > mode not supported' until the machine is rebooted.
> > 
> > Creating a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d for the nouveau module is not
> > sufficient to prevent it from being loaded.
> > 
> > Putting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0" in /etc/default/grub and running
> > update-grub prevents nouveau from operating, however Xorg falls back to the
> > vesa module rather than nv, making the system very slow to use.
> 
> 
> Reassigning to the nouveau X driver. That may belong to the kernel
> package but X maintainers will know this better than the installer
> team..:)
> 
They don't know any better without seeing dmesg and X logs.

Cheers,
Julien

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