On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:02 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 04:06 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote: > > > > > >> Mixed bag results. Turning on the xdriver=vesa let the preupgrade run. I > >> now have an X-less fc12 system. I don't know what the system is trying > >> to run. Xorg.0.log has many messages from nouveau (including GPU freeze) > >> even though the command line said vesa and xorg.conf said nv. I didn't > >> come up with a combination that worked. > >> > > > > xdriver=vesa will only work for install. to stick to vesa (or nv) once > > the system's installed you need a valid xorg.conf. Can you paste the > > xorg.conf you're trying to use, and the Xorg.0.log? > > > > > sorry the nouveau messages were coming form dmesg not xorg.log. > I am enclosing xorg.conf, a dmesg output, and a xorg.logs with init 5 or > init3 with startx > At the risk of misleading you, it seems that nouveau is registering > itself as the driver and not letting nv take over. Almost. people tend to not fully comprehend that, these days, most X.org drivers consist of at least two components: a kernel module and an X.org driver (and you can add a Mesa DRI library to that, for many that support 3D). What's happening here is the nouveau kernel driver is getting automatically loaded, and that's stopping the nv X.org driver from loading. Probably all we can do about this is have system-config-display block the nouveau kernel module from loading if you configure nv as the X.org driver; I'll file a bug for that. To do it manually, just add this line to a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ (you can call the file anything you like, as long as it ends in .conf - for e.g. /etc/modprobe.d/no_nouveau.conf ): blacklist nouveau then either reboot, or just run 'rmmod nouveau' as root and restart X. Have you filed a bug on the fact that nouveau does not work with your chipset? If not, could you do so, and include the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg logs? (If you have, what's the URL?) Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
