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From: Ben Skeggs <skeggsb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [drm] failed to open device
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:42:29 +1000
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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 16:43 +1000, Dmitri Sosnik wrote:
> > That's the problem.  Nouveau requires KMS enabled.
> 
> Ah, ok, got it.
> 
> > Does the NVIDIA binary driver work?  If so, if you could trace it
> > (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace) that'd be very helpful
> > to figure out what to do.
> >
> 
> Nope, it fails with "failed to copy vbios to system memory" message.
Right.  The equivilant to what you're seeing nouveau fail with!

I'm not sure what to suggest from here.

> 
> Cheers,
> D