Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

[Ian Malone]

On 3 December 2011 14:18, Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2 December 2011 21:08, Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2011 11:18 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> On 02/12/11 12:04, Ian Malone wrote:
>


Ian Malone wrote:
> It's just this series of 4 commands, run as root. (Don't enter the #
> signs, they're just to mark the start of each line):
>
> # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup-20111202
> # nvidia-xconfig
> # echo blacklist nouveau >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
> # dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>

Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am very sorry but it didn't work. I got the same read out results. I
> uninstall the nvidia drivers and reinstalled them and tried it a second time
> with no results.

Ian Malone wrote:
> Were there any errors reported while running those commands? Has the
> machine been rebooted?
> If you do
> lsmod |grep nouveau
> Do you still see the nouveau module?
> Does
> lsmod |grep nv
> Show the old nv module or nvidia?
>
> I'm wondering if it's necessary to reboot between after adding the
> blacklist line and before doing dracut. If you reboot and nouveau is
> not showing up with the 'lsmod|grep nouveau' above, then it may be
> worth trying the dracut line again. Also the new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> would be good to see.
>

Lawrence Graves <lgraves95 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the results of your questions? I am very grateful to you for all
> your help. See attached.
>

It looks like nouveau is still being loaded. If you can post the
/etc/X11/xorg.org file and /var/log/Xorg.0.log that might help pin
down the cause.

However, I think I missed out a necessary option for the dracut
command, try (again don't type the # they just indicate separate lines
run as root):
# mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
# dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

(For the record: I meant to suggest dracut -f which would force
overwrite of the existing initramfs file, however it's probably safer
to move it to a backup as in the two lines above.)

Sorry this is taking so much back-and-forth, I've been on your end of
this kind of thing and I know it's frustrating.

-- 
imalone