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

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri Oct 29 03:24:05 EDT 2010


On 10/28/2010 06:34 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca> 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.
> 
> I believe the proprietary driver package puts that blacklist file in
> place.
> 
> See what package owns it with (IIRC):
> 
> # pacman -Qm  /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf
> 
> C Anthony [mobile]
> 

[02:23 archangel:/etc/clamav] # pacman -Qo  /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf is owned by nvidia 260.19.12-1

You are correct, Sir!

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