From: Stephen Powell on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:25:24 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-06-18 01:01 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> The nouveau X driver now apparently works even if modeset=0 is specified
>> as a nouveau kernel module parameter.
>
> It does not, unless the module is loaded with modesetting enabled
> somehow. Maybe you got the vesa driver instead of nv.

You're right, Sven. I checked the old logs, and it rejected nouveau
because KMS was not enabled, then skipped nv for some reason and
went to vesa. That also explains why my custom video mode (Modeline)
was not honored. vesa can only use modes defined in the video BIOS.
Thanks for that correction.

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