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 -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
