On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:29:03PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:07:22AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 18:49 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:41:15AM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > > > On 01/23/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> How can I make sure drm/radeon/ttm modules are not loaded, > > > >> until I do it manually myself? > > > >> > > > >> I extracted the initrd image, edited the 'init' script and > > > >> commented out loading of the modules, repacked the initrd, > > > >> and booted but something (plymouth? udev?) still loads the modules.. > > > >> > > > >> I'd like to load them later manually, for some debugging purposes.. > > > >> > > > >> -- Pasi > > > >> > > > > > > > > Try adding nomodeset to the kernel line in grub.conf. > > > > > > > > > > Sorry forgot to mention that I already have nomodeset.. > > > It seems it's not enough. > > > > You should be able to rmmod them with nomodeset, the driver > > doesn't do any initialisation in that case. though you > > should boot to runlevel 3 as once X starts the hw will > > be initialised. > > > > Then you need to load radeon with modeset=1 to override it. > > > > What I'm trying to do here is to debug some kind of text 'offset' > problem when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0, under the hypervisor. > > I just tried booting the kernel on baremetal, without Xen. > > It seems something is initialized when the drivers are loaded > for the first time (automatically by most probably udev, > trying to blacklist them now and see if that prevents them > from being loaded), because there's a small 'flash' on the screen > when udev is started. This 'flash' happens on baremetal. > Ok, I just also blacklisted the radeon/drm/ttm modules in /etc/modprobe.d/ and now they aren't loaded automatically anymore. The offset-problem still happens, so it's actually not related to radeon driver, it's something else. Thanks for the help! -- Pasi -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
