[Nouveau] [Bug 39530] Also after installing Obermayrs drm-nouveau driver booting succeeds only with nomodeset

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39530

--- Comment #2 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson at hotmail.com> 2011-07-26 06:33:10 PDT ---
@ Guido Trentalancia  - 'nomodeset' is a boot code that one enters on the
options line of the Grub menu in openSUSE, and its use is documented in the
openSUSE-11.3 and 11.4 release notes. It typically disables modesetting in the
kernel for that boot, and it also forces openSUSE to use the 'nv' driver.

To all, I encountered what I believe to be the same problem with the 3.0 RC7
kernel on a 32-bit openSUSE-12.1 milestone-3 on a GeForce FX5200 hardware
(which booted the nouveau driver fine with the latest 2.6.39 kernel on
Tumbleweed-11.4).  

Note I also applied the suggested fix on this 32-bit openSUSE-12.1 Milestone-3
with this FX5200 hardware with the 3.0 RC7 kernel as noted in
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707110 installing the specially
packaged application drm-nouveau-kmp-desktop by Johannes Obermayr, but that was
insufficient.  I also had to install the updated xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau
also packaged by Johannes Obermayr after which the nouveau driver did work on
my FX5200. I documented that in Comment#7 on that
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707110 thread.

So with BOTH packages the nouveau driver works for me on the 3.0 rc7 kernel.

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