On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:59:40 +0200 Didier Spaier <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61. lspci|grep VGA says: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS > 140M (rev a1) > > I have Slacware64-13.0 and Slackware64-current installed. > > Nouveau is modularized in all my kernels for -current. > > A problem arise even if I don't want to use nouveau under X: > unless nouveau be blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > at startup, > - when using one of the VESA modes at startup after a while > screen goes blank and I get a warning in syslog e.g: Apr 2 > 18:58:56 darkstar kernel: fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb > vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver, This message is the expected behaviour. It is not an error. It means the vesafb hand-over is working, or at least it is attempted. At what stage does the screen go blank? At X startup? > - no problem when using a VGA mode (text only), > > this disregarding which X driver I use afterwards (I always start > in console mode). Are you trying to use nouveau.ko in kernel, and a non-Nouveau X driver at the same time? That cannot work. If nouveau.ko is loaded, the only option for X is to use the nouveau driver (or perhaps fbdev). Any other driver, e.g. "vesa" or "nv", will lead to trouble. What kind of setup are you trying to run in this regard? > But according to this page: > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting > I thought nouveaufb shouldn't conflict with vesafb ? Am I wrong ? The hand-over should work: when nouveaufb initialises, vesafb gets automatically deactivated. In any case, complete kernel and X logs will help to diagnose your situation. -- Pekka Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
