[Nouveau] GeForce FX 5200: no kms

[Francisco Jerez]

Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
If you don't feel like setting up a netconsole, at least show us the
output from "dmesg", Xorg.0.log and "lspci -vv" after a successful
boot. That alone may tell us something (no guarantees, if you really
want to find out what's going on netconsole is your best bet).

> Marcin
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