On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:25:05PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:47:23PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Thanks Andy, it's good to know that the rest looks OK. OF is > > OpenFirmware (the equivalent of a bios) - mac ppc's have always > > needed framebuffer consoles. I believe the OF version is what is > > available when the kernel is first loaded, but I'll try without it. > > > Didn't help. I then tried adding video=1600x1200 - that didn't > stop the screen becoming black, but looking at syslog I can see it > switched to a 133x54 framebuffer after nouveau had initialised, so I > think I'll keep both those changes. > > I'm now thinking it might be an -rc problem. A couple of commits > mentioned today on lkml might be worth reverting, or after that I'd > better try going back to 2.6.36.latest. > In fact, the problem was unrelated - nouveau thinks I've got a TV connected to the NTSC output. Went back to 2.6.35, but no difference. Then I started playing with the video= options. Eventually found that I need "video=TV-1:d" - now I'm back to a 1600x1200 display and nouveau is using DVI-I-2. This is without the video=1600x1200 option, and without OFfb (this just hands over to nouveaufb/nvidiafb as soon as the kernel decides to display a penguin, so it wasn't doing anything useful).
Now to see if DDX (xf86-video-nouveau) works - to my surprise, my minimal desktop did still work using xf86-video-nv but I'm sure that's a recipe for disaster when running nouveaufb so I didn't stay in it. Thanks for all the responses. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
