[Nouveau] [PATCHv2] nouveau: call drmCheckModesettingSupported after opening the device

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 16:19:41 PST 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the kernel module is not yet loaded X will fail to load with
> "[drm] KMS not enabled". Some of the cases which may lead to this are
>
> * using hotplug
> * blacklisted nouveau

If you blacklist it, its not up to the server to load it, the whole
point of the blacklist to not load the modules.

I've no idea what hotplug does wrong, but it should load the drivers
at bootup using pci ids like say udev does.

NAK.

Dave.


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