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tehsusenoh

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Registered: 2010-11-15

Posts: 3

nouveau PDISP errors when attempting to boot into installation media

I'm attempting to install Arch onto my laptop, and I am unable to get the Arch media to even boot at all.

It's an MSI GT60-2OC, so it has UEFI, as well as an NVIDIA 770M, with Optimus.

Here's an example of the errors I'm seeing. They get spammed all the way over the screen, in different configurations.

[ 4.951444] nouveau E[ PDISP][000:01:00.0] chid 0 nthd 0x02a4 0x0000000 0x100032a4 0x00000000

The first number varies depending on time of the error, and the first three hex values are also different each time. The last value is always 0x00000000.

I can also see from a built-in light that my NVIDIA card is the one that is activated when these errors are present. Is there a way to force Arch to boot using the integrated card until I can get proper drivers up and running (if that's the issue)?

Last edited by tehsusenoh (2013-09-19 03:53:04)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: nouveau PDISP errors when attempting to boot into installation media

You're not the only one with this issue, see the last post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1317949