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

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:15:28AM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> 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

Yay, thanks.
I adapted it to xf86-video-nv and it works!
Now we need to trick Aaron to apply it.

Aaron: please, please, please apply.
:)

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