Broken nouveau KMS

[Christopher Thielen]

I believe I followed the instructions at 
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/ 
which are admittedly out of date.

I _did_ have a /usr/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf, thanks for 
suggesting that. I deleted it and rebooted: the updated kernel then 
seems to have modprobe'd nouveau about 1/3 of the way through the 
text-based progress bar and X.org did then use the Nouveau driver, use 
the correct resolution, etc.

The text-based progress bar still bugged me though so I tried removing 
the latest kernel again and re-installing it. That did it.

Everything works fine now. Not sure why I'd need to remove the newer 
kernel again but it's all working.

Thanks Ed and Ahmad!

- Christopher Thielen

On 02/14/2014 06:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/15/14 10:16, Christopher Thielen wrote:
>> I tried Ed Greshko's suggestion of removing the bad kernels and reinstalling but I still end up without Nouveau support in the newly installed kernel.
>>
>> I believe it's not a UEFI boot, it's a Dell Latitude D630.
>>
>> I did notice when I boot the old, working kernel, I see nouveau in the output of 'lsmod' but I do not see it in the output of lsmod when I boot the newer kernel.
>>
>> Any idea what that could be about?
>
> I believe you said you installed the nVidia driver at some point.  But, you didn't mention the procedure as to how you did that.
>
> One question, do you have a /usr/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file or any *conf file in that directory that contains "blacklist nouveau"
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>