[Nouveau] [Bug 35514] Black screen with nouveau on a GeForce 8600M GT, either LiveCD or fresh install

[Mathieu Marquer]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 20:55, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>wrote:

> There are a couple of things that should be taken into account
>
> 1. In the dmesg log provided nouveau is not loaded (remove nomodeset from
> the kernel command line)
>
I'm not using nomodeset. Here is attached one when I'm using nomodeset (and
where the system finally choose to use vesa), but the Xorg.log attached to
the bug report is without nomodeset or any other specific kernel parameter.

2. Please (re)move the nouveau_dri.so file, as 3D is not supported.
>
I'll give a try


>
> Most likely the issue is unrelated to point 2, but without a comprehensive
> log (see point 1), nothing decisive can be said.
> As a possible "fix" take a look at Forcing Modes [1], and select a
> lower resolution. (the list can be seen in your Xorg log)
>
> [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting
>
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