[Nouveau] [Bug 111853] nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426

[Karol Herbst]

does anything in dmesg show the reason?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:41 PM <bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>
> Comment # 2 on bug 111853 from Felix Miata
>
> How?
> e.g. on Tumbleweed:
> Nothing in /etc/mo*/ contains veau
> Nothing in /etc/ is named *veau*
> # lspci | grep -i vidia
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GT]
> (rev a1)
> # uname -a
> Linux vaio 5.3.1-2.g3354216-vanilla #1 SMP Thu Sep 26 06:05:47 UTC 2019
> (3354216) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> # cat /proc/cmdline
> root=/dev/sda9 ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume mitigations=auto
> consoleblank=0 drm.debug=0x1e log_buf_len=1M acpi=off 3
> # pwd
> /lib/modules/5.3.1-2.g3354216-vanilla/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
> ls -l | grep veau
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 645980 Sep 27 05:03 nouveau.ko.xz
> # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i veau
> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=m
> # CONFIG_NOUVEAU_LEGACY_CTX_SUPPORT is not set
> CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5
> CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3
> # CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_MMU is not set
> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y
> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_SVM=y
> # modprobe nouveau
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nouveau': No such device
>
> How could it be blacklisted, and why does modprobe claim there is no such
> device?
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