Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

[Chris Smart]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes I do.

Then I guess either your initramfs still has the nouveau driver (which
will cause problems with NVIDIA), or it doesn't but you have the rhgb
kernel option (which is fine).

Unless I'm mistaken, plymouth will use KMS by default if it has
support for it in the nouveau driver. If it doesn't have that, then it
will fall back to text mode, however you can still get a pretty splash
if you pass the rhgb option to the kernel.

This is what my kernel line has, which gives me a lower-res but still
pretty splash screen without KMS or nouveau:
nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x369 nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau

So, if you're getting a pretty splash but you aren't passing similar
options as above, then your initramfs probably still has nouveau.

> Yes, I removed it. This is not the problem, the problem now is that
> something gets corrupted when I'm using nvidia so that upon restart
> I'm back to the original problem (X never starts).

Well all I can suggest is that you boot to say, run level 3, check
that nvidia is loaded, check that nouveau is NOT loaded, check that
your xorg.conf file is correctly set to use the nvidia driver.

If that's all good but X still doesn't load, read your
/var/log/Xorg.0.log log file to see what X is actually trying to do.

>From my experience, if you remove your xorg.conf file, install the
akmod-nvidia package and libraries (as per previous post), then NVIDIA
is pretty solid.

-c