[Nouveau] Blank screen at startup (conflict with VESA VGA)

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 20:04 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:50:13 +0200
> Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not aware of any trick to make both nv and nouveau working.
> > Maybe there should be a way to prevent nv (and vesa, but not
> > fbdev) from loading when KMS is in use?
> 
> Yeah, there was a brief discussion about that recently:
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/index.php?date=2010-03-21&channel=nouveau&show_html=true&highlight_names=&update=Update&date=2010-03-21
> 
> I haven't heard anything about it since.
> 

I wrote a patch for vesa on bugzilla[1] to do exactly that; a similar
one for nv wouldn't be hard.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26878
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