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Yeah, I think I would have preferred if the card refused to work at all without the required power, but what can you do
> To my knowledge nouveau requires KMS enabled (so nomodeset will not work).
Yeah that's the thing. It locks up on the handover, and the only way to get to a login was to prevent the handover with nomodeset
I got it though. Went over the HW again, card has a 4 pin molex on it that I miiiiight have forgotten to reconnect after clearing some space to pull out a harddrive
Lo and behold, KMS handover, nouveaufb, and X launching. twas just me being an absolute boob
I'm trying to get X up and running on a Pentium 4 with a Geforce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)
Right from the clean bootstrap, boot/display would lock up at the fsck part unless the nomodeset kernel param was given
At that stage, the nvidiafb module was loaded during boot
I've since installed the nouveau driver, made an explicit nvidiafb blacklist in /etc/modprode.d (as it conflicts with nouveau), and added the nouveau module to the mkinitcpio.conf MODULES array (and yes, I've rebuilt the initramfs :)
I still need to provide nomodeset to get the machine to a tty login
lsmod lists nouveau loaded, and nvidiafb not. nothing related from dmesg --level=err
When trying to start X, /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells me [drm] Failed to open DRM device: -19
Any pointers? there must be some piece I'm missing here
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