Re: F13 - Display trouble with a Sony Vaio (was: Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display))

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On 06/25/2010 04:05 AM, Federico Marziali wrote:
> There are still the following "open" points (in reverse-order of importance):
> 1. I don't like that the startup is now text-only until when the
> graphical drivers load. Is there a way to obtain the old graphical
> boot without the nouveau drivers?
>

No, the graphical boot requires kernel modesetting support, which is not 
(and never will be) supported by closed-source drivers.

> 2. Although I can certainly live with that, it doesn't seem
> "elegant"to me :) to have to specify a blacklisted driver at boot in
> order for the system to work properly.
> Question: how can the next kernel update realise that the nouveau
> drivers must be removed? Because of the file
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
> or because I have blacklisted them in the kernel parameters at boot
> time (i.e. in /boot/grub/grub.conf )
>

This is the wrong approach. Instead of asking for the Nouveau drivers to 
be removed, you should be asking how to get Nouveau to support it properly.

I had a similar problem(1) a while back with a VAIO running a GeForce 
210M (Sony loves to write their own BIOS instead of using the reference 
implementation). What you need to do is open a Bugzilla bug against 
Nouveau and provide the VBIOS as an attachment(2). Chances are, you'll 
see a kernel update in the not-too-distant future with a new version of 
Nouveau that supports the GeForce 330M.

> 3. At boot time I get the following error:
> Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526: NNNN
> Segmentation fault  "$@" [FAILED]
> where NNNN is a 4 random digits.
> Nevertheless, the nvidia drivers seem to load (I see the nvidia logo)
> and work (3d works: desktop effects, opengl screensavers...). Any idea
>   about what is causing this boot error and how I can fix it?
You won't get any support for a closed-source driver here. Complain to 
nVidia (they probably won't listen).



(1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536923
(2) http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/DumpingVideoBios
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