From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Didier Spaier Subject: Re: Blank screen at startup (conflict with VESA VGA) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:27:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4BBAF07E.9070005@epsm.fr> References: <4BBA4F3C.9070606@epsm.fr> <20100405214559.GA4230@joi.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100405214559.GA4230-OI9uyE9O0yo@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Thansk for your answer, kernel logs are attached. Please note that this time I tried with a 2.6.32.2 kernel (nouveau works under X). Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:59:40PM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> new to this list ;) >> >> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61. lspci|grep VGA says: >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) >> >> I have Slacware64-13.0 and Slackware64-current installed. >> >> Nouveau is modularized in all my kernels for -current. >> >> A problem arise even if I don't want to use nouveau under X: unless nouveau be blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf at startup, >> - when using one of the VESA modes at startup after a while screen goes blank and I get a warning in syslog e.g: >> Apr 2 18:58:56 darkstar kernel: fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver, > > It should work. Please provide full kernel log. Kernel logs are attached for both cases. Unfortunately I don't see many differences ?? > >> - no problem when using a VGA mode (text only), > > But Nouveau framebuffer activates without errors, right? > Yes, switching to nouveau framebuffer OK in the latter case but not in the former >> this disregarding which X driver I use afterwards (I always start in console mode). >> >> But according to this page: >> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting >> I thought nouveaufb shouldn't conflict with vesafb ? Am I wrong ? >> >> I tried with modules shipped in vanilla 2.6.33.1 as well as the last Nouveau kernel repository pulled from git: no luck in both cases. >> >> I know there are easy workarounds: either use "VGA=ask", "VGA=ext" or "VGA=normal" as a lilo.conf option or blacklist nouveau -- which doesn't hurt anyway as nouveau will be loaded at X startup anyhow. >> >> But this is still is an annoyance for newcomers as when they are trapped all they can do if they have a VESA mode in lilo.conf is launch another system or live CD/DVD and either edit lilo.conf and run lilo again or edit blacklist.conf to blacklist nouveau. >> >> But still, before kindly requesting Patrick Volkerding to blacklist nouveau in -current for the time being, I wanted to now of another way to go if possible. >> >> Thanks in advance for your answers, >> >> Didier >