Re: [Fedora-xen] kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 X broken on MacBook
>> I just tried kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 from
Mike
>> Young's repository on my MacBook and found that the video driver does
>> not seem to work. Lspci reports:
>>
>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M (rev b1)
> What is the grub.conf entry? Have you passed nomodeset to the
kernel module?
I tried adding nomodeset, but that did not help by itself. I ended
up
doing the following:
1. Add nomodeset to kernel command line.
2. Create an xorg.conf that uses the VESA driver (X -configure, edit).
3. Deactivate dri2 and dri in xorg.conf.
4. Boot Xen Dom0 kernel into runlevel 3.
5. rmmod nouveau; init 5.
I was able to simplify this a bit:
1. Add nomodeset to kernel command line.
2. Remove all xorg video drivers except the VESA driver.
3. Add "blacklist nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf.
4. Run "dracut --force" to rebuild initramfs with new blacklist entry.
This avoids the requirement for a hard-coded xorg.conf. I previously
had trouble keeping the nouveau module from loading. I had forgotten
that it is necessary to rebuild an initramfs to ensure the system does
not load blacklisted modules.
--
Mike
:wq