[Nouveau] [Bug 25393] Repeated "EDID checksum is invalid" erros with varying remainders on NV43

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--- Comment #4 from TomG <kaw550pgz at yahoo.com> 2010-05-26 16:26:02 PDT ---
I have worked around the problem as follows.

Background:  The nouveau driver interferes with the probing of nvidia's driver.
 Going into init 1 or init 3 from init 5 will result in nouveau still being
loaded in the kernel.  One must boot into init 1 or init 3 before nouveau has a
chance to load for the NVIDIA installer to work correctly. 

Solution:

Restart and boot into single mode by appending the capital letter S to grub's
kernel line.

run the installer as before, ignoring the warning about potential problems with
init 1.

Verified as a solution in UBUNTU 10.04 LTS and NVIDIA x86-195-32-24.

Also, these newer (post 190) drivers have a ignore-EDID option; you can Google
the readme of the driver if need be, that should solve these problems.

--Tom G.

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