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title="NEW - nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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title="NEW - nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853">bug 111853</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mrmazda@earthlink.net" title="Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>"> <span class="fn">Felix Miata</span></a>
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<pre>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?</pre>
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