Bug#686611: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Distorted graphics with GeForce 4200Go (NV28)
On 2012-09-09 21:53 +0200, r ductor wrote:
> 4) Booted with experimenta kernel
> linux-image-3.5-trunk-686-pae
> Version: 3.5.2-1~experimental.1
> black TTY and black X so I cannot document this.
>
> I've reported the bug upstream
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54700
> (but I reported the bug with the old kernel, the new one breaks the
> system badly)
I'm afraid upstream won't be interested in that then, since they don't
support the 3.2 kernel.
> As for the driver modesetting, I use
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 0.3.0-1
> # cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
> blacklist nouveau
You should not blacklist nouveau, the modesetting driver actually needs
that kernel module to be loaded.
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/98-me
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "modesetting"
> BusID "pci:0000:01:00.0"
> EndSection
>
> but nouveau is still loaded. (I attach dmsg and Xorg.log if somebody
> can understand why I cannot start modesetting, maybe the pci data I
> used are wrong ... I'm really incompetent!)
There's no need to specify the BusID, but your file is ignored entirely
because its name does not end in ".conf". See xorg.conf.d(5).
Cheers,
Sven
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