From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Slusarz Subject: Re: GeForce FX 5200: no kms Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:28:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20101114122837.GA2660@joi.lan> References: <20101114001107.GA2771@joi.lan> <599238.49669.qm@web28305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <599238.49669.qm-aJrtAnoviRLGRxTy+Q50vsz6deESKz/lQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Paolo Milani Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:18:10AM +0000, Paolo Milani wrote: > --- Dom 14/11/10, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > It should work. Please post your kernel logs from a failed > > boot (they are somewhere in /var/log). > > when boot fails (and system crashes), it write nothing in /var/log: there are only logs of the previous successful boot (with nomodeset option). > > my procedure: > 1- boot without nomodeset: system crashes. > 2- boot with another linux distribution, then I mount partition of point 1, but in /mnt/var/log there are no logs of failed boot. It wrote nothing. > > So, I don't know how get logs from a failed boot. If there is a guide, I'm eager to read it. Many thanks. > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HangDiagnosis The most successful method is netconsole. Marcin