linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm request 3

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Message-ID: <4B90E9EA.9030708@garzik.org>
Date:	Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:24:26 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Adam Jackson <ajax@...hat.com>
CC:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3

On 03/04/2010 05:59 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:21 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>> # sed -i 's/\<kernel\>.*/&   nouveau.modeset=0/g' /etc/grub.conf
>>
>> Never tried this part.
>
> The bug I'm assuming you're referring to is
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519298
>
> in which you merely remove the nouveau userspace component, and in which
> I can't tell if you built nouveau into the kernel or not, but I assume
> you didn't based on your previous post.  The X server does only try the
> one driver before falling back to vesa, which is a bug in the fallback
> logic I suppose.  I've (blindly) fixed that for F13 now.

Thanks.  Can this be put into F12 too?


> However, the log in that bug only shows you using the built-in
> autoconfig logic, and not an xorg.conf file.  So, given you were talking
> about a kernel without nouveau, I am left to assume one of:
>
> - you didn't try writing an xorg.conf fragment
> - you did, and it didn't work anyway
>
> The latter case is entirely plausible, as nv is not the sort of driver
> that gets a lot of love, but I'm not aware of any open bugs about gf9800
> in particular in nv.

The latter...  would modeset in grub interfere, perhaps?

	Jeff


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