Re: Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so now I've reinstalled the drivers once again. Upon my first
> reboot the startup would halt with the flickering white bar. Rebooting
> mystically fixed it and I'm definitely running nvidia withour nouveau:

I don't know why you're getting that... seems strange. Can you post
the kernel line of your /boot/grub/menu.lst?

>
> $ lsmod | grep nouveau
> $ lsmod | grep nvidia
> nvidia               9318413  40
> mbp_nvidia_bl           1755  0
> i2c_core               20553  3 nvidia,videodev,i2c_nforce2

OK, so that means that your system does not have the nouveau driver
(your initramfs still might).

>
> Looking at xorg.0.log however I find the following errors at the end
> (everything else in the log looks alright to me):

Hmm.. I doubt that it's dualhead, you would have to configure that in
your xorg.conf before it worked with the NVIDIA driver.

Can you post this?
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |grep -i driver

>
> I'm curious to see how long I can run this system now before it fails again...

Yeah, well let us know :-) What I've mentioned works for me on many
systems... so I would have thought it would work for you too..

-c
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