Nouveau doesn't play nice with vanilla kernels

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 16:29 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 04:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> > On 10/27/2009 09:57 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> >> As the title says, if I boot a git kernel (Linus' tree), plymouth 
> >> doesn't work, nor does X start. I have to change the graphics driver 
> >> to nv in xorg.conf and restart in order to  get  the git kernel 
> >> working with X, but then the Fedora kernels won't start X with the 
> >> nv  driver.  Anyone else  having these problems?
> >>
> > Yes, If you updated the new kernel-2.6.31.5-96 yesterday get rid of it 
> > and bootup
> > in old kernel.
> > I had the same problem.
> >
> Thanks, but then the first issue remains : why can't nouveau start X 
> with vanilla kernels?

Because the vanilla kernel doesn't have the nouveau module in it.

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