[arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

[David C. Rankin]

On 10/28/2010 06:18 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> I do have the /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf file on my machine,
> too, but I remember that the nouveau kernel driver did get loaded until
> I added !nouveau to the MODULES list in my rc.conf.  So
> 
> 1)  Can you do an "lsmod | grep nouveau" to see whether nouveau maybe
>     still gets loaded.  (If so, it might be interesting to learn why
>     even though the above file is present.)

Sure, but I don't have it here:

[02:21 archangel:/etc/clamav] # lsmod | grep nouveau
<nothing>
> 
> 2)  If the answer to (1) is yes, try adding !nouveau to the MODULES list
>     in rc.conf and see whether this fixes your problem.
> 
> Of course, I'm just guessing here.
> 

That's OK, I'll take those to :)


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