Hang on boot in F13 RC2

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 01:31 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> On 5/11/2010 1:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 23:15 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> >    
> >> On 5/10/2010 12:42 AM, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> >>      
> >>> I have an nvidia GeForce 8400GS and I suspect nouveau somewhere between
> >>> the DRM and X.  doing a "rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0" works.
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Thanks for the hint. "rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0" makes X work on my geforce 6100 system. Can this suggestion be added to common bugs?
> >>      
> > 'nomodeset' already is there, which should have exactly the same effect.
> >    
> you are right, nomodeset works with the current kernel. It wasn't 
> working in -41 and in 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578965#c9 Ben Skeggs said 
> that it is not intended to work so I didn't try again.

What Ben means is that the nouveau driver really doesn't support
operation without KMS (kernel modesetting) any more. Both 'nomodeset'
and 'nouveau.modeset=0' do the same thing: they disable KMS. So this
method of operation is indeed entirely unsupported, no matter which
kernel parameter you use to initiate it.

(are you actually using the nouveau driver in this case? Or VESA?)
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