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On 12/05/2011 01:32 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 12/04/2011 09:44 PM, Lawrence Graves<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lgraves95@gmail.com"><lgraves95@gmail.com></a>
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<pre wrap=""> On 4 December 2011 11:22, Ian Malone<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ibmalone@gmail.com"><ibmalone@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> 3. If at this point after rebooting nouveau is still starting then I'm
really stumped.
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<pre wrap=""> I've got Lawrence's dmesg output and nouveau is being loaded very early on:
[7.591930] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[7.613319] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[7.613325] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
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has the 'blacklist nouveau' line and successfully run:
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
If he has done these then does anyone know how nouveau could still get
loaded?
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<pre wrap="">I just placed rdblacklist=nouveau in the grub command line and also
added it to the blacklist.conf file and then rebooted and nothing.
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Nouveau probably got loaded because the initramfs is still the old one.
And the nvidia driver has not been installed/loaded so that dracut uses
*it* (instead of nouveau) when creating the new initramfs. The
...'rebooted and nothing' suggests that *no* video driver is being
loaded. Here is a recipe of steps for Lawrence to follow:
1 Add rdblacklist=nouveau to kernel grub line (done)
2 For the moment add rdblacklist=iwl4965 to the kernel grub line
3 Change your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file Device section to say Driver "vesa"
[ If using the nvidia binary run-file to install, change /etc/inittab to
boot into run-level 3 ( multi-user under systemd not 'graphical']
4 Reboot. This should get you through to the desktop *with the vesa
(basic) driver: no nouveau, no nvidia, no iwl4695.
5 Install the nvidia drivers using rpmfusion [ or the nvidia run file.]
6 Change the xorg.conf device section Driver line to Driver "nvidia"
7 Reboot.
You should now be using the nvidia driver at runlevel 3 (console).
8 Run 'lsmod | grep nvidia', You should see something like 'nvidia
11694654 30'
See what happens when you run 'startx'
9. Run the 'dracut' command line given above to create a new initramfs
*with* nvidia and *without* nouveau (also without iwl4695 ATM)
10. Change inittab to runlevel 5
11 Reboot. You should go right through to the graphical desktop.
At this point, nvidia will be working. But you will not have any
wireless. Reboot a couple of times, so you can bask in the splendour of
getting the nvidia driver installed.
12. NOW and ONLY NOW, remove the rdblacklist=iwl4695 from the kernel
grub line. (You can remove or retain the nouveau reference)
13. It has not been mentioned: do you have the firmware installed?
Run 'yum install iwl4965-firmware'
Now it gets interesting: see whether iwl4695 actually conflicts with
nvidia.
14. Run 'modprobe iwl4695'
15. Run 'lsmod | grep iwl4965' to check that it has been installed.
16 Use 'system-config-network' to configure your wireless.
Check that it is working properly.
17 Re-run dracut to create a new initramfs *with* iwl4695.
18 Reboot to check.
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After doing all the above from 1-18, it is still doing the same
thing and gave me the same screen as when I first start this
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Lawrence Graves <lgraves95@gmail.com>
All things are workable but don't all things work.</lgraves95@gmail.com></div>
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