From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Velikov Subject: Re: [Bug 35514] Black screen with nouveau on a GeForce 8600M GT, either LiveCD or fresh install Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:06:33 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20110321182844.11F1913000C@annarchy.freedesktop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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: Emil Velikov , Mathieu Marquer Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:02:01 -0000, Mathieu Marquer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 20:55, Emil Velikov wrote: > >> There are a couple of things that should be taken into account >> >> 1. In the dmesg log provided nouveau is not loaded (remove nomodeset from >> the kernel command line) >> > I'm not using nomodeset. Here is attached one when I'm using nomodeset (and > where the system finally choose to use vesa), but the Xorg.log attached to > the bug report is without nomodeset or any other specific kernel parameter. Please attach a dmesg log, of a system startup *without* using nomodeset. to obtain it, you can login into the system using ssh, or ask Ubuntu where it keeps the old dmesg logs > > 2. Please (re)move the nouveau_dri.so file, as 3D is not supported. >> > I'll give a try > > >> >> Most likely the issue is unrelated to point 2, but without a comprehensive >> log (see point 1), nothing decisive can be said. >> As a possible "fix" take a look at Forcing Modes [1], and select a >> lower resolution. (the list can be seen in your Xorg log) >> >> [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting >>