nouveau driver vs nouveau.modeset=
by mw.decavia from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KVPQ)
My ancient laptop (which I can't afford to upgrade) has nVidia gt218m aka nvs3100m video. As it says on the left side of the screen, I am using slackware64-15.0
The "nvidia" xorg proprietary driver spent over 3 hours make-ing without producing any output file, until I gave up and hit ctrl-c.
The "nv" xorg driver included with the install - X loads but gives me only a black screen, requiring me to kill the xorg process to halt it. Though the log file in /var/log says everything loaded successfully.
The "nouveau" xorg driver works great. Except that I can not put "nouveau.modeset=0" in the kernel boot command line, or else X fails to load, saying "connection refused".
But if I do not put "nouveau.modeset=0" then half way through the boot the screen turns to little tiny lettering I need a magnifying glass to see.
Is there any way I can use the nouveau xorg driver without having the console screen mode being changed to tiny?
The "nvidia" xorg proprietary driver spent over 3 hours make-ing without producing any output file, until I gave up and hit ctrl-c.
The "nv" xorg driver included with the install - X loads but gives me only a black screen, requiring me to kill the xorg process to halt it. Though the log file in /var/log says everything loaded successfully.
The "nouveau" xorg driver works great. Except that I can not put "nouveau.modeset=0" in the kernel boot command line, or else X fails to load, saying "connection refused".
But if I do not put "nouveau.modeset=0" then half way through the boot the screen turns to little tiny lettering I need a magnifying glass to see.
Is there any way I can use the nouveau xorg driver without having the console screen mode being changed to tiny?