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Old 03-29-2010, 12:05 AM   #16
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I just used nano as per the 1st post.

from root init3:
"nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"
add:
blacklist nouveau
at the bottom.

then
"cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Then install nvidia driver

I used 195.36.15

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Old 03-29-2010, 12:18 AM   #17
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EDIT:
Sorry, double post. :-(

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Old 03-29-2010, 01:06 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Hefty Herb View Post
Thanks for the reply didier Spaier. As I stated before, I boot into a black screen so I cant even see a login prompt, so I was asking if I could somehow blacklist it at boot time, as in, from lilo. Yes I could go through the trouble of downloading a boot CD, mount my partition, and make the changes. Might as well download another distro and install it. Thanks for the sarcasm that indicated I'm too stupid to read the previous replys. Now everyone know what kind of a-hole you are.

Thats ok, I had a good 10 year run with slackware. Time to move on I guess.
Or boot with the original install CD, or download the incredibly small USB boot and throw that on a USB stick following the instructions (note: you must backup that USB stick first...you *will* lose the data).

I don't know if the nouveau stuff tries to eat up non-framebuffer devices but you can try passing "vga=normal" or "vga=ask" to LILO when booting up.
 
Old 03-29-2010, 01:16 AM   #19
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Hefty Herb,

I am sorry about that, there was no sarcasm intended in my answer - though now that I know you have 10 years experience with Slackware I'm a bit surprised that:
1) You ask such a question
2) You don't keep a Slackware DVD at hand to solve such an issue

Case closed, on my side.

PS I forgot: would you decide to keep Slackware, you could stay with -stable, so you won't encounter any such problem.

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Old 03-29-2010, 08:24 AM   #20
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Hefty Herb dont be daft ... its just a forum that has a fair mixture of good and evil,don,t desert the good because of the evil or vice versa, as doing so would be seriously lacking in Slack... LOL
 
Old 03-29-2010, 08:30 AM   #21
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I suppose I've lost some patience with people that respond without actually reading the question. Then rephrasing the question, then getting the same response. I couldn't find a way to do it on boot. Seems no one else has either.

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Old 03-29-2010, 08:45 AM   #22
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errr...sorry to butt in on the scrap...but I just wanted to tell you guys my experiences sp far...

My current setup is still running good with nvidia 96 driver
I actually had very little problems on current

Only issue I had was that after installing nvidia driver, doing nvidia-xconfig
and starting X as root(which works great)

I then tried to startx as user and Black screen
so I did su + passwd
then redid nvidia-xconfig
exit from root
login as user
startx

and it now works great too

My SourceMage install still wont start with xorg 1.7.5 wwith vesa or nvidia driver
and says "seg fault"
so, probably not related..

My Absolute current setup Xorg is broken after upgrade
but no idea why?
Its broke on both PC's, a K& and K8
 
Old 03-29-2010, 09:24 AM   #23
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Nouveau is working well following the instructions straight off here http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau. I opted to download all the git trees (kernel + nouveau branch, drm, xf86-video-nouveau) and compile. Good for a bit of time wasting! This is on a 7900gs.

Cheers for the howto anyway it inspired me to give the new driver a go.
 
Old 03-29-2010, 03:24 PM   #24
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I suppose I've lost some patience with people that respond without actually reading the question. Then rephrasing the question, then getting the same response. I couldn't find a way to do it on boot. Seems no one else has either.
I'll take from your utter omission of any details that "vga=normal" or "vga=ask" did not do the trick? It is a two-way street...you can ignore advice or tell me it didn't work, but pretending no one has offered any is foolish.
 
Old 03-29-2010, 06:24 PM   #25
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Ah yes, first thing i tried. There is still visible output, up till nouveau loads.

Still in runlevel 3 since you were about to ask that too.

Were do I pretend no one has offered help?

A man goes to the doctor, tells the doctor he can't see. The doctor tells him, I have the cure! You're in luck! All you need to do is 10 jumping jacks. The man replies, "Doctor, I have no legs." The doctor replies, "Yes but all you need to do is 10 jumping jacks." Once again the man replies, "Doctor, I have no legs! I can not do jumping jacks!" The Doctor replies, "Foolish man, did I not tell you all you have to do is 10 jumping jacks!"
 
Old 03-30-2010, 12:58 AM   #26
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Use Arch
 
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Old 03-30-2010, 01:18 AM   #27
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Well, if you computers's BIOS allow network boot and you have another one at hand, you could do as explained in READ_ME.TXT an on this page, thanks to AlienBOB.

Now if you don't want to use *any* alternate booting method in order to chroot into your root partition and blacklist nouveau then YES I willingly admit that I am out of ideas as I couldn't find any run-time LILO option to prevent a module of being loaded - so if anybody knows one I would be grateful to learn it from him/her
 
Old 03-30-2010, 02:25 PM   #28
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If you like living on the wild side you can do it blind. Log in as root (blind...) and
Code:
# echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# shutdown -r now
Though if you accidentally type > instead of >>, woops.
 
Old 03-30-2010, 03:12 PM   #29
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Why not just use either the official slack install cd/dvd to fix the blacklist.conf?

or a Livecd/usb?
 
Old 03-31-2010, 12:11 AM   #30
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At what point does modprobe get called? Does it get called in all runlevels? What we need to do is to modify modprobe to check /proc/cmdline when being called with the default parameters.
 
  


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