Nouveau not working, only vesa, and strange installation

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Two pastebins:

lsmod - :~> lsmod Module - Anonymous - DmZmesMt - Pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/DmZmesMt) no nouveau module :frowning:
Xorg.0.log 28.365] X.Org X Server - Anonymous - x5DYPE50 - Pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/x5DYPE50)

28.938] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev


28.938] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa


28.938] (++) using VT number 7


28.957] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0


28.958] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0


29.414] [drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau"


29.414] (EE) [drm] failed to open device


29.415] (--) NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 at 01@00:00:0


29.415] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev


29.415] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"


29.415] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"


29.420] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so


29.422] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"


29.422]    compiled for 1.8.0, module version = 0.0.2


29.424]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 7.0


29.425] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa

Any suggestions? Probably the best is to wait for nvidia driver?

Another thing is interesting, I tried to install without boot parameters, with ā€œacpi=off noapic nolapicā€, both installation failed, twice hanging exactly when installing kernel-default.rpm, probably because of acpi. Then added ā€œInstallation ā€“ ACPI Disabledā€ at the end of boot options and it worked :smiley: But later added acpi=off, so now kernel optional parameters looks like ā€œInstallation ā€“ ACPI Disabled resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-IC35L040AVER07-0_SXPTX3T5970-part3 splash=silent quiet showopts acpi=offā€. Maybe delete this ā€œInstallation ā€“ ACPI Disableā€ in the beginning? For now seems it is working without noapic nolapic.

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Maybe this thread helps you? It describes how to get rid of nouveau and install Nvidia proprietary driver while there is no suse repository for this. No need to wait :wink:

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The advice provided by joba1 should hopefully be sufficient. If you find the thread confusing, you can also read here: SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

ā€¦ in essence you likely need ā€˜nomodesetā€™ boot parameter in your boot menu (initially) to install, and then blacklist your nouveau driver per the guidance given in the link provided, and probably set yast > System > /etc/sysconfig Editor > System > Kernel > NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to ā€œyesā€.

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Iā€™m having a related problem (sort of) where I tried to install the nvidia drivers for improved 3d performance, but they were highly unstable, so I tried reverting back to nouveau, which I was quite happy with otherwise. Unfortunately, I canā€™t seem to get DRI working.

Output from glxinfo, xorg log, and relevant modules:
pastebin - nouveau problems on opensuse 11. - post number 1939221

Any suggestions would be appreciated

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Did you use nomodeset in the kernel parameters?

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I did try this originally, but it gave me a low-resolution display only. Iā€™ve also tried reinstalling what I think to be the relevant packages for glx after removing the nvidia packages. Perhaps I should try this again now that I have an Xorg.conf (I canā€™t reboot for a few days due to some jobs Iā€™m running, but I can restart X). In summary, Iā€™m using ā€˜nvā€™ driver, asking Xorg.conf to load glx, dri, dri2, but nothing happens and I didnā€™t really see any complaints in the log file

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You want the nvidia driver not the nv. If you read the links posted above it gives full instructions.

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No, I donā€™t want NVIDIA, because for some reason on this laptop it causes X to ā€œrandomlyā€ restart. Iā€™ve had good experience with NVIDIA drivers in the past, but on this alienware it is sadly not the case in Linux (and not just SuSE Linux either).

When I first installed SuSE, I had DRI via nouveau - Iā€™d like to get this back.

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If nouveau does not work and nv does nor work and nvidia does not work that leaves only vesa. Only nouveau and nvidia have any 3D acceleration which Iā€™d expect you would want on that hot hardware.

Iā€™d drop back to 11.2 and hope they finally get the video straightened out in 11.4

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Fair enough; maybe Iā€™ll reinstall the base system and see if that helps when I can - 3d was definitely working in nouveau at first. You are right, I would prefer nvidia drivers for sure - I need to file some bug reports with nvidia. So is 11.4 supposed to do some major overhauling of video configuration (or are you referring to driver updates)?