Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 16:32:16 UTC 2010
Am 17.11.2010 17:24, schrieb stan:
> I compiled a custom kernel in F14 using the Fedora source RPM, and
> created a custom initramfs for it using dracut. It boots, and X tries
> to load nouveau, but it fails and falls back to VESA. Here is the
> pertinent section from Xorg.0.log while it was booting.
>
> 44.002] (II) NOUVEAU driver
> [ 44.002] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
> [ 44.002] RIVA TNT (NV04)
> [ 44.002] RIVA TNT2 (NV05)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 256 (NV10)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 3 (NV20)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)
> [ 44.002] GeForce FX (NV3x)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 6 (NV4x)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 7 (G7x)
> [ 44.002] GeForce 8 (G8x)
> [ 44.002] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [ 44.002] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
> [ 44.002] (++) using VT number 1
>
> [ 44.008] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> [ 44.082] [drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau"
> [ 44.082] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
>
> It isn't clear to me why it failed. Can anyone clarify for me what is
> wrong here and how I should fix it? I think my device is a 4MX in the
> list above.
>
> Thanks.
Remove any umask call from /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/99base/init and rebuild
your initramfs.
I will update dracut soon.
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