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TwiNight

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Registered: 2011-06-04

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[SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

After seeing that nouveau is very buggy, I decided to uninstall it, so I removed the

xf86-video-nouveau

package. But even then, after restarting the system, I noticed the following -

[   16.182560] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   16.182652] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[   16.185700] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected an NVc0 generation card (0x0c1880a1)
[   16.193291] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
[   16.203014] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[   16.203016] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PROM
[   16.203026] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[   16.203028] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PCIROM
[   16.212899] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
[   16.212993] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: ... BIOS signature not found
[   16.212995] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from ACPI
[   19.473216] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: i915 driver attached, reenabling gpu turbo
[   23.801061] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: ... appears to be valid
[   23.801065] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: BIT BIOS found
[   23.801067] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Bios version 70.08.19.00
[   23.801069] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid
[   23.801104] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: TMDS table version 2.0
[   23.801106] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 4.0
[   23.801109] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 02014300 00000000
[   23.801111] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02021362 00020010
[   23.801113] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 0000000e 00000000
[   23.801116] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x40 5 16 4
[   23.801118] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   0: 0x00000340: type 0x40 idx 0 tag 0xff
[   23.801120] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   1: 0x00001061: type 0x61 idx 1 tag 0x07
[   23.801122] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   2: 0x00000147: type 0x47 idx 2 tag 0xff
[   23.801124] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   3: 0x00002346: type 0x46 idx 3 tag 0x08
[   23.801126] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   4: 0x00000400: type 0x00 idx 4 tag 0xff
[   23.801127] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   5: 0x00000210: type 0x10 idx 5 tag 0xff
[   23.801129] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   6: 0x00000211: type 0x11 idx 6 tag 0xff
[   23.801131] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:   7: 0x00000213: type 0x13 idx 7 tag 0xff
[   23.801145] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Adaptor not initialised, running VBIOS init tables.
[   23.801148] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xD2F9
[   23.825417] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 0xD2E4: i2c wr fail: -6
[   23.865625] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xD93F
[   23.892707] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xEAD4
[   23.892713] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xEAD8
[   23.892771] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xEBC0
[   23.892773] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0xEC25
[   23.931862] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 3 available performance level(s)
[   23.931865] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 0: memory 135MHz core 50MHz shader 101MHz voltage 850mV timing 0
[   23.931868] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 1: memory 324MHz core 202MHz shader 405MHz voltage 850mV timing 1
[   23.931871] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 3: memory 800MHz core 500MHz shader 1000MHz voltage 900mV timing 2
[   23.932066] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 1895064 kiB.
[   23.932070] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
[   23.932091] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected 512MiB VRAM
[   23.932103] mtrr: no more MTRRs available
[   23.941334] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
[   23.941343] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PGRAPH: unsupported chipset, please report!
[   23.961757] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[   23.961758] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[   24.017130] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x8020000, bo ffff88014c89d800
[   24.017186] fb1: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[   24.017191] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 1
[   24.869941] Adding 1112060k swap on /dev/sda8.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1112060k 

Why am I seeing these entries even after removing nouveau? What should I do?

Last edited by TwiNight (2011-08-11 13:02:01)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

nouveau is in the kernel. What are you trying to do and nouveau is in your way?

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

You need to blacklist the nouveau module: Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf that contains "blacklist nouveau"
and reboot. Read more on module blacklisting.

I'm not sure if this'll work, I'll tell you where exactly I have blacklisted nouveau on my home pc. Additionally the nvidia packages should contain a script that blacklists the module in question

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

That's how nvidia blacklists nouveau

[karol@white ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf 
blacklist nouveau

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Last edited by karol (2011-08-11 12:45:41)

TwiNight

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Registered: 2011-06-04

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

nouveau is in the kernel. What are you trying to do and nouveau is in your way?

Well, it's delaying the startup process considerably. That's why I thought that maybe I can do something about it. And I have the intel video driver installed, so I think there is no need of nouveau, is there?

TwiNight

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Registered: 2011-06-04

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

That's how nvidia blacklists nouveau

[karol@white ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf 
blacklist nouveau

When pasting code, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode not [quote ] tags

like this

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Please edit your post.

Sorry about that :-(.

Will keep that in mind.

TwiNight

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Registered: 2011-06-04

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] preventing nouveau initialization

SO the blacklisting solved the problem...marking the thread as SOLVED now.