On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 21:26:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-08 00:16 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > > Severity: normal > > > > attached is the dmesg output from this machine. It was booted with > > the forced-fbdev xorg.conf initially, and nouveau.ko was actually > > *not* loaded in that case. > > That should not have happened. Maybe nouveau is blacklisted in some > file under /etc/modprobe.d. Anyway, since fbdev works, *some* > framebuffer driver must be loaded already, and it's quite possible that > this driver keeps nouveaufb from working. > It's powerpc, so it needs a fb driver somehow. However from dmesg, it seems to be using nvidiafb, which probably doesn't handle console handoff. Daniel, can you try booting with video=ofonly? AFAIK, that should use the offb framebuffer driver on boot, which should be able to hand off to nouveau. Cheers, Julien
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