[Nouveau] [Bug 30086] Nouveau fails with unreadable EDID

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30086

--- Comment #7 from walt <w41ter at gmail.com> 2010-09-09 15:32:40 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > In my case that device wasn't created during boot until I added
> > console framebuffer support in the kernel. CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
> 
> Why would you *not* have fbcon=y? Without fbcon, you will not have a text
> console at all with Nouveau.

Now I remember.  My mistake was building fbcon as a module.  When I changed
it to built-in then everything started working correctly.

Before I figured it all out, I loaded the fbcon module from a blank console
screen before starting X -- thus getting the missing device error mentioned by
the OP.

If there's a way to shoot yourself in the foot -- I promise to find it :)

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