HARDWARE: Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop nVIDIA Geforce2 Go (NV11) with Intel AGP PROBLEM: Display corruption whenever nouveau module was loaded, seemingly at random. CULPRIT: Whenever the i2c-dev.ko driver/module was loaded, the display would become corrupted, or as if the timing became out of sync with hardware specifications, with weird moving pixels throughout the display. If the i2c-dev is built into the kernel, possible the display would turn-off upon nouveau module loading, but could be possibly worked around (I think) by building the nouveau driver statically into the kernel, possibly loading prior to i2c-dev loading? Been having this problem for many years, finally found it, and nothing found via Google on i2c-dev & nouveau. WORKAROUND: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf blacklist i2c_dev Or, rebuild the kernel without i2c-dev. Quite a few Linux distributions either compile the i2c-dev into the kernel, or load the module during booting, creating significant display problems (as noted above) when trying to install from a Linux distribution CD/DVD. Most people performing an install, I'm guessing, are then simply performing a nomodeset during boot and/or reverting to VESA/UVESAFB. -- Roger http://rogerx.sdf.org/ _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
