Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 16:32:16 UTC 2010


Am 17.11.2010 17:24, schrieb stan:
> I compiled a custom kernel in F14 using the Fedora source RPM, and
> created a custom initramfs for it using dracut.  It boots, and X tries
> to load nouveau, but it fails and falls back to VESA.  Here is the
> pertinent section from Xorg.0.log while it was booting.
>
> 44.002] (II) NOUVEAU driver
> [    44.002] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
> [    44.002]    RIVA TNT    (NV04)
> [    44.002]    RIVA TNT2   (NV05)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 256 (NV10)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 2   (NV11, NV15)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 3   (NV20)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)
> [    44.002]    GeForce FX  (NV3x)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 6   (NV4x)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 7   (G7x)
> [    44.002]    GeForce 8   (G8x)
> [    44.002] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [    44.002] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
> [    44.002] (++) using VT number 1
>
> [    44.008] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> [    44.082] [drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau"
> [    44.082] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
>
> It isn't clear to me why it failed.  Can anyone clarify for me what is
> wrong here and how I should fix it?  I think my device is a 4MX in the
> list above.
>
> Thanks.

Remove any umask call from /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/99base/init and rebuild 
your initramfs.

I will update dracut soon.


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