[Nouveau] GeForce FX 5200: no kms

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:18:10AM +0000, Paolo Milani wrote:
> --- Dom 14/11/10, Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It should work. Please post your kernel logs from a failed
> > boot (they are somewhere in /var/log).
> 
> when boot fails (and system crashes), it write nothing in /var/log: there are only logs of the previous successful boot (with nomodeset option).
> 
> my procedure:
> 1- boot without nomodeset: system crashes.
> 2- boot with another linux distribution, then I mount partition of point 1, but in /mnt/var/log there are no logs of failed boot. It wrote nothing.
> 
> So, I don't know how get logs from a failed boot. If there is a guide, I'm eager to read it. Many thanks.
> 

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HangDiagnosis
The most successful method is netconsole.

Marcin