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daiscog

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Registered: 2011-08-04

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Repeating nouveau error message in all terminals

Hello,

I've just installed Arch on my PC and have a really irritating problem.  This starts during boot and continues indefinitely.  Every ten seconds, my monitor will flash once and an error message will appear in the console that reads:

[   xxx.xxxxxx] [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: No native mode, forcing panel scaling

This is intensely frustrating as it interferes with whatever has control of the terminal; be it nano, man, anything.  If I start X (I have just installed twm at the moment) the screen will still flicker once every ten seconds.

PC spec is:

CPU: Intel Core i7 64-bit quad core 3.2GHz
RAM: 6GB
GFX: NVidia GTX 465 1GB, PCIe

Any ideas, please let me know!

Thanks,

David

Last edited by daiscog (2011-08-04 16:22:17)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Repeating nouveau error message in all terminals

Put 'quiet' in your kernel boot line.

daiscog

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Registered: 2011-08-04

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Repeating nouveau error message in all terminals

Thanks for the tip.

Surely that will only hide the error message, not solve the problem that's causing it?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Repeating nouveau error message in all terminals

Try googling a bit http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/05/msg00522.html

daiscog

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Registered: 2011-08-04

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Repeating nouveau error message in all terminals

Thanks Karol;  I did search around for a while, but obviously your choice of Google keywords is better than mine!

FYI and for others that might be troubled by this, adding "quiet" didn't actually help anyway, but adding

drm_kms_helper.poll=0

to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst did the trick.

Many thanks!

David