Nouveau doesn't play nice with vanilla kernels

[Aioanei Rares]

On 10/27/2009 04:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 09:57 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
>> As the title says, if I boot a git kernel (Linus' tree), plymouth 
>> doesn't work, nor does X start. I have to change the graphics driver 
>> to nv in xorg.conf and restart in order to  get  the git kernel 
>> working with X, but then the Fedora kernels won't start X with the 
>> nv  driver.  Anyone else  having these problems?
>>
> Yes, If you updated the new kernel-2.6.31.5-96 yesterday get rid of it 
> and bootup
> in old kernel.
> I had the same problem.
>
Thanks, but then the first issue remains : why can't nouveau start X 
with vanilla kernels?