2009-03-26 - Fedora Test Day - Nouveau graphics driver

[Will Woods]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:43 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 17:40:19 -0500,
>   Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I must be doing something wrong, but enabling modeset on grub boot tells
> > me incorrect parameter?  

That's expected, and you can ignore it. The *kernel* complains because
it doesn't understand 'nouveau.modeset=1'. But the nouveau *module*
understands it fine.

> > If you wanted to edit your grub.conf itself and
> > add it there , would someone post theirs and show me what line and how
> > it's set for it to work?  I've done it via grub.conf and tried via just
> > boot up and adding it before booting and either way gives me an error.
> 
> modeset is the default. You use nomodeset to turn it off.

That's for intel and radeon, not nouveau. See the *other* feature page
for details on modesetting with nouveau:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauModesetting

I added a note to the NouveauAsDefault wiki page to clarify a bit.

-w
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