[Nouveau] nouveau kernel module will not load on old Sony Vaio laptop with 8400M GT

[Felix Miata]

Karol Herbst composed on 2019-10-16 15:25 (UTC+0200):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> is there anyone here who can help with:

>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853
>> nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with NVIDIA G86M
>> [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426

>> ???

> do you know if it used to work with older kernels? If yes, maybe a git
> bisect on the kernel could help

I've updated the bug to indicate 3.16.7 and 4.2.6 kernels will load the kernel
nouveau module without producing expected X results, along with Xorg.0.logs.
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