Preupgrade to rawhide?

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Sat Sep 26 22:35:40 UTC 2009


Adam Williamson wrote:
> What's happening here is the nouveau kernel driver is getting
> automatically loaded, and that's stopping the nv X.org driver from
> loading. Probably all we can do about this is have system-config-display
> block the nouveau kernel module from loading if you configure nv as the
> X.org driver; I'll file a bug for that. To do it manually, just add this
> line to a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ (you can call the file anything you
> like, as long as it ends in .conf - for
> e.g. /etc/modprobe.d/no_nouveau.conf ):
>
> blacklist nouveau
>
> then either reboot, or just run 'rmmod nouveau' as root and restart X.
>
> Have you filed a bug on the fact that nouveau does not work with your
> chipset? If not, could you do so, and include the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> and dmesg logs? (If you have, what's the URL?) Thanks!
>
>   

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525905

The blacklist should solve my problem and the system-config-display hack 
should work with working systems. But the install issue still remains. I 
think this issue needs attention before release.




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