efi boot, nvidia, macbookair3,1

efi boot, nvidia, macbookair3,1

[Trevor Jim]

Hi, I'm trying to debug nvidia graphics with EFI boot on a
MacbookAir3,1.  Any pointers would be appreciated.

EFI boots fine to console.  Black screen on xinit with nvidia driver.

I hear nouveau is the same, however, the following bug report indicates
the problem is that nouveau (and presumably nvidia) expects the bios
information in a different location than provided by grub:

    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35267#c10

Where would be the place to fix this?  fakebios/loadbios?  Not grub? :-)

-T

Re: efi boot, nvidia, macbookair3,1

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 26.08.2011 21:17, Trevor Jim wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to debug nvidia graphics with EFI boot on a
> MacbookAir3,1.  Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> EFI boots fine to console.  Black screen on xinit with nvidia driver.
>
> I hear nouveau is the same, however, the following bug report indicates
> the problem is that nouveau (and presumably nvidia) expects the bios
> information in a different location than provided by grub:
>
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35267#c10
>
> Where would be the place to fix this?  fakebios/loadbios?  Not grub? :-)
You probably need to load your ACPI tables as well.
> -T
>
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>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: efi boot, nvidia, macbookair3,1

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 28.09.2011 16:31, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 26.08.2011 21:17, Trevor Jim wrote:
>> Hi, I'm trying to debug nvidia graphics with EFI boot on a
>> MacbookAir3,1.  Any pointers would be appreciated.
>>
>> EFI boots fine to console.  Black screen on xinit with nvidia driver.
>>
>> I hear nouveau is the same, however, the following bug report indicates
>> the problem is that nouveau (and presumably nvidia) expects the bios
>> information in a different location than provided by grub:
>>
>>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35267#c10
>>
>> Where would be the place to fix this?  fakebios/loadbios?  Not grub? :-)
> You probably need to load your ACPI tables as well.
Have a look at "acpi" command
>> -T
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Grub-devel mailing list
>> Grub-devel@gnu.org
>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>>
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: efi boot, nvidia, macbookair3,1

[Trevor Jim]

> > You probably need to load your ACPI tables as well.
> Have a look at "acpi" command

Thanks, looking around there seems to be a lot of information to digest.
Exciting :-).  I'll take a look.

-Trevor