[Nouveau] GeForce FX 5200: no kms

Marcin Slusarz marcin.slusarz at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 16:11:07 PST 2010


On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:25:45PM +0000, Paolo Milani wrote:
> Hi all!
> According to feature matrix http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
> kms on GeForce FX 5200 is supported, but on my system it's not working. I've
> tried with fedora 14 and k/ubuntu 10.10, but the screen is blank and the system
> is freezed (the monitor is connected as vga). If I set nomodeset option boot,
> the system boots ok. Any hope? many thanks.
> 
> lspci -nn
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [10de:0322] (rev a1)

It should work. Please post your kernel logs from a failed boot (they are
somewhere in /var/log).

Marcin


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