On 12/04/2011 07:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 4 December 2011 11:22, Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com> wrote:

3. If at this point after rebooting nouveau is still starting then I'm
really stumped. The log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be useful. You
could also capture the dmesg information (the kernel messages) by
doing:
dmesg > dmesg-out.txt
If you do send the dmesg-out.txt file created then it's probably best
to send that direct to my email rather than the users list as it will
be quite big.

I've got Lawrence's dmesg output and nouveau is being loaded very early on:

[7.591930] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[7.613319] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[7.613325] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[7.616906] microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0xd1, date = 2010-10-01
[7.616918] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x6f6, pf=0x20, revision=0xc7
[7.625064] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV40 generation
card (0x049a00a2)
[7.626500] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
[7.650724] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[7.653761] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.06

I don't have confirmation from him that he's been able to check:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

has the 'blacklist nouveau' line and successfully run:
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

If he has done these then does anyone know how nouveau could still get
loaded? The next step would be to add nouveau as a rdblacklist line in
the kernel arguments, it looks like this is now done via
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub.

I just placed rdblacklist=nouveau in the grub command line and also added it to the blacklist.conf file and then rebooted and nothing. It blinked about 3 times and then the readout it showed in the beginning and then 1 minute later the error message: iwl4965 0000:0c:00.0: Aggregation not enabled for tid 0 because load=1.
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