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superm1hmm radeon KMS appears to not let my second monitor work03:16
superm1that's a bit annoying03:17
tjaaltonsuperm1: check the new kernel (-16) once it's built06:38
tjaaltonand pushed out of NEW06:39
superm1tjaalton, okay will do06:40
tjaaltonit has the drm backport, so that ought to help06:47
tjaaltonmaybe together with -ati 6.12.19106:47
Sarvattyay blob broken once again - FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'rcu_lock_map'07:04
Sarvattthey like locking nvidia out some new way every new merge window :)07:06
libvand all they do is alienate nvidia users more07:44
superm1tseliot, i wanted to ask you what the plan for how remixs/derivatives should be supporting a plymouth theme.  the artsy folks for mythbuntu need to have some sort of idea what they should be targeting09:12
superm1it seems silly to produce a whole new theme with all that logic you have in the .script, so just dropping a logo in place seems more ideal09:13
tseliotsuperm1: the idea is to make some packages which will introduce a new logo (and maybe change the writings colour and the background colour) and use alternatives to select the theme09:14
tseliotthe plan is, of course, to reuse the .script file09:14
superm1tseliot, ah yeah, that would work swell.  so target the same resolution as the logo you ship then currently and things should work fine09:15
* tseliot nods09:15
superm1okay i'll feed that back to them, thanks!09:15
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tseliotnp09:16
mvotjaalton: hi, I just finished debugging a odd upgrade issue from a hardy->lucid upgrade and it turns out that xorg read a really old XCF86Config-4 that wants to load i810. should u-m on upgrade remove/move  XF86Config-4 ?11:18
tjaaltonmvo: oh yes11:23
mvo:)11:24
mvook11:24
* mvo will add code after lunch11:24
tjaaltonthough it's strange that it would read it, can't find any reference to it11:26
tjaaltonfrom the code11:26
tjaaltonhmm ok, found it11:31
tjaaltonmvo: or maybe append the name with .obsolete or something11:37
tjaaltoninstead of removing11:37
mvotjaalton: ok, I will do that11:37
mvotjaalton: should I file bugreport about i830 and kernel mode setting failing horrible? or is that HW considered just outdated11:38
tjaaltonmvo: I think the plan is to make the kernel use !kms on those11:38
tjaaltonwhile the driver still supports it11:38
tjaaltonso the problem should be known already11:39
tjaaltonapw: ^^11:39
mvotjaalton, apw: ok, thanks. let me know if you need a bugreport about it, i830+kms = blank screen. along the same lines, should "nofb" imply "nomodeset" ? I tried nofb to get a a terminal, but no luck until I discovered nomodeset11:40
apwmvo, i assume that you have this issue with the drm33 backport?  11:41
mvo(otherwise I'm pretty happy that the "intel" supports my old i830 chip again with a reasonable speed)11:41
apwand if so then yes we would want a bug on that11:41
tjaaltonoh the meta was updated11:41
apwtjaalton, litttery just now11:42
tjaaltonyeah :)11:42
mvoapw: this is with whatever is in lucid currently (2.6.32.15.16)11:43
tjaaltonso it's still the .32 drm, try with -16 which should be available now11:43
mvook11:44
* mvo updates11:44
tjaaltonyou probably need to install the new kernel manually until the new linux-meta has been published11:46
apwmvo let me know when you have that test result, as if we need to blacklist you you'd be a good test case for the blacklisting support12:29
bjsniderSarvatt, what is that error supposed to mean?12:57
mvoapw: ok, so: Linux version 2.6.32-16-generic (buildd@rothera) ; fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device ; fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device - blank screen both console and X. so -16 does not fix it for me13:11
jcristauugh.  that's wrong.13:11
mvointel8x0: clocking to 4800013:11
mvo Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x4813:11
jcristaualthough maybe fb1 doesn't matter..13:12
mvo(rebooting with nofb:) nofb is not honored: "fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device"13:13
mvonomodeset makes it happy again13:15
apwmvo does blacklisting vga16fb help any?13:19
mvoapw: give me a minute13:19
mvobug #534375 - vga16fb I try next, I just did it, but for some reason it loaded it anyway, maybe wrong blacklist file13:23
ubottuLaunchpad bug 534375 in linux "blank screen with 2.6.32-16 on intel i830 vga" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53437513:23
mvoapw: no change with blacklisted vga16fb14:08
tjaaltonit's probably using a wrong output14:08
apwmvo, thanks ...14:08
mvotjaalton: interssting, what can I do to control that?14:08
tjaaltonif X loads and you can hear the login sound14:09
tjaaltonI'm not sure if you can :)14:09
mvoheh :)14:09
mvook14:09
apwsounds like we need a bug ... 14:09
mvowhen i pass "nomodeset" all is fine14:09
tjaaltonbug 53437514:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 534375 in linux "blank screen with 2.6.32-16 on intel i830 vga" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53437514:09
* mvo boots again now to run apport-collect14:09
tjaaltonwell maybe it just needs a quirk like the ddx driver14:10
tjaaltonthough you'd think those were ported over14:10
mvotjaalton: the xf85EdidModes.c stuff in xserver-xorg-core?14:18
tjaaltonmvo: no, the ones in -intel14:18
tjaaltonI believe there are some for 830 chips14:19
Sarvattmvo: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=7b9c5abee98c54f85bcc04bd4d7ec8d5094c73f414:20
Sarvattits just not in linus' tree yet14:20
tjaaltonheh, that's likely the cause14:21
Sarvattmvo: the symptom in the log is likely the cause he meant, that commit is the fix :)14:27
tjaaltonright :)14:31
bjsnidertseliot, what does jockey mean by saying that nvidia-current is activated but not in use?14:35
tseliotbjsnider: maybe that the module is not loaded but the package is installed14:36
bjsniderthe nvidia driver is loaded14:38
bjsniderthis guy's system is seriously pooched14:38
bjsnidernouveau and vesa are not loaded14:38
Sarvattprobably no nvidia xorg.conf in that state14:40
Sarvattif its like my machine when i get in that state :)14:41
bjsniderwe'll see14:41
tjaaltonI need to find out why nvidia dkms fails to build here ("make[1]: Makefile: No such file or directory")14:41
Sarvattbjsnider: that error from earlier was because they exported a symbol as GPL only in the 2.6.34 kernel so the nvidia module cant use it, sorry missed the question14:42
bjsniderSarvatt, i don't even know how to respond to that14:43
bjsniderwhat possible justification could there be for doing such a thing? how could that possibly help anything?14:47
tjaaltonSarvatt: where did you get that error?14:50
tjaaltonthis thread? http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=220348914:50
mvoSarvatt: thanksf for the git link, I'm building a updated kernel now to see if that fixes the problem (will take a while, this is a old machine :)14:52
Sarvattyeah and it was this commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f5f654096487c6d526c47bb66308f9de81f091cf14:52
bjsniderwhose code is it?14:53
Sarvattactually, ya can try a drm-intel-next kernel from the mainline-ppa14:53
Sarvattthat commit should be in this one mvo - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/drm-intel-next/current/14:54
mvoSarvatt: cool, downloading now14:56
Sarvatti've made 6 bad lid state quirks this past week for people, getting to be a really common problem and I think I convinced the intel guys to add the ignore acpi lid state module option patch upstream eventually so things are at least usable without recompiling a kernel when UMS userland isn't around 15:00
Sarvattwe're sticking with 2.9.1 it looks like but we still have it set to KMS only with a configure flag at build time15:00
Sarvattprobably better off using vesa any which is what happens with nomodeset anyway on that 830 though :)15:01
mvoSarvatt: no change (with the intrl-drm-next) kernel. well, right. I don't mind how the problem is fixed, I just don't like the regression on lts->lts upgrade, especially since even "recovery mode" will result in this blank screen so a normal (even a technical) user will have a hard time with the bug15:05
mvo(also of course this hardware is pretty dated by now)15:06
zniavregood afternoon im alwais experienced some nvidia-173 worrie with nvidia-settings it works but there some bugs quite annoying, am i to the good place to ask ?15:09
zniavrehttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/187396/screenshot4.png15:09
zniavrealways*15:10
zniavrei filed a bug report few weeks ago about the same bug , i did what the mainteners ask but it did not solved the nvidia-settings bug 15:11
zniavrewhat should i do ?15:11
Alice_32hi does anyone know if is there any chance to get ati card work in lucid>? at the moment im using open source driver and the problem is that it use 50% of my cpu and the catalyst driver doesnt work at all any advice, help?15:51
SarvattAlice_32: try adding radeon.modeset=0 to your kernel command line16:05
diverse_izzuei have trouble with external screens on lucid since kernel -15. kernel -15 didn't boot at all with an external screen connected, kernel -16 boots, but i have a very jittery image. i had seen the same behaviour under karmic if i ran it with a 2.6.33 kernel.16:06
Sarvatthmm so nvidia-settings isn't really backwards compatable at the moment?16:13
Sarvattperhaps that calls for a nvidia-settings-173 and such16:13
diverse_izzueSarvatt, ^^, any idea how to debug?16:14
tseliotthere is only one nvidia-settings in Ubuntu16:22
Sarvattyeah it doesnt work with 173 apparently from zniavre's comments earlier16:23
Sarvattif it fails to query some extensions the older driver doesnt support its not showing the configuration panel for that section at all it looks like16:24
SarvattI wonder if we're hitting this in any of our nvidia bugs - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14865216:27
tseliotSarvatt: do we have a bug report about it?16:28
Sarvattespecially now that we just reenabled RENDER16:29
Sarvatti dont know, its the type of bug you need to manually check the xorg log to see if an extension was silently not getting enabled16:29
tjaaltonn-s is open source, so it's fixable16:31
apwis it possible to tell under X whether you are running using the emergency fallback X server?16:51
tseliotapw: maybe gdm keeps track of this in its logs?16:52
tseliotbryceh should know more about this16:53
apwtseliot, it seems like something we should get reported by apport if we can tell16:53
cndbryceh: what's the plan for nvidia 195 drivers?17:04
tseliotapw: that's a good idea17:04
tseliotcnd: we're waiting for news from Nvidia17:04
cndthere's a suspend/resume bug that is present in 195, but not 19017:05
cndtseliot: is there an eta on that?17:06
tseliotcnd: are you sure that it doesn't depend on the combination kernel/driver?17:06
cndtseliot: the resume bug occurs on the new .33 drm kernel with 19517:07
cndI think any other combo is ok17:07
tjaaltonthe blob doesn't use drm at all17:09
cndtjaalton: yes, but it still seems to cause issues17:13
tjaaltoncnd: what about mainline 2.6.33?17:23
tjaaltoncnd: what about mainline 2.6.33?17:26
Sarvattcnd: so it works fine with -15 and not with -16, you're sure of that and can reproduce it?17:45
brycehapw, well it's invoked with an option to use xorg.conf.failsafe and Xorg.failsafe.log, so easy thing would be to look at ps and see if a command with those options is present17:46
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cndI just installed the nvidia-current package, but xorg.conf wasn't generated18:10
cndhow can I generate it?18:10
cnd(this is on lucid)18:10
jcristau$EDITOR18:12
cndjcristau: ummm... yeah, I've already done that route, but I don't know what the values should be now18:13
cndis driver still nvidia or nvidia-current18:13
cndneither seems to work for me18:13
bjsniderjockey will generate it for you18:13
cndbjsnider: is there a way to invoke that from tty?18:14
cndor do I need to use vesa to get into X to start jockey?18:14
bjsnidervesa i assume18:14
cndahhh, looks like jockey-text may work18:14
cndyep, jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_current did the trick18:16
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Sarvattack, tickets to brussels for UDS are crazy18:30
Sarvatthttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1268030255-13422-1-git-send-email-airlied@gmail.com&forum_name=dri-devel  \o/ \o/18:31
apwbryceh, thanks18:53
Sarvatthmm, thinking about redoing ppa-purge as a graphical utility, anyone have any recommendations on where a good place to hook it into an existing package would be instead of making it a standalone app?19:11
brycehSarvatt, yeah in fact I was thinking of this yesterday19:11
brycehthere exists a utility add-apt-repository (installed by default I think??)19:12
brycehI was thinking, "Sarvatt's ppa-purge is sort of like rm-apt-repository - I wish it was included in whatever provides a-a-r"19:12
Sarvatthmmm19:17
Sarvattchecking out software-properties now19:18
Sarvattif anyone is using nouveau on edgers -  I'm uploading a lbm-nouveau and it needed alot of work readding nouveau back to it, can ya tell me if it works with the -16 kernel? keep in mind you'll need to blacklist nouveau manually at the moment until I fix that20:10
mvobryceh: that sounds like a good idea (to include rm-apt-repository)20:33
mvoSarvatt: you have a working script for this already (purge-ppa?)20:33
brycehmvo, yeah we've been using it in xorg-edgers for some time now (but it should work well with any arbitrary repo)20:33
mvocool20:34
mvowhere can I find it?20:34
mvooh, I have it already20:34
* mvo looks closer20:34
brycehyeah... https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/ppa-purge_0.2.6.dsc20:35
Sarvatthttps://edge.launchpad.net/ppa-purge20:35
mvonice (and a nice idea)20:35
mvoI put it on my todo list, I'm about to leave for today (but couldn't resist looking at it :)20:35
bryceh:-)20:36
* mvo waves20:38
RAOFbryceh: In ubuntu-x?21:44
brycehsure21:44
RAOFWould seem a little bit more on-topic :)21:44
brycehthe kernel freeze is coming up thursday21:44
brycehapw is uploading the kernel for that tomorrow morning his time21:44
brycehhe wanted to know what to do about the nouveau api bump this go around21:44
RAOFI think we sit on the current api.21:45
tjaaltonupstream is going to stabilize it during the next two months, and call the result 1.0.021:46
RAOFRight, that too.21:46
brycehby current api do you mean not the new api?21:46
RAOFAnd by “stabilize” they mean “break it again until they're reasonably happy with it”.21:46
RAOFBy current api I mean the api we have in lucid at the moment; the 0.0.15 api.21:46
brycehok good21:46
RAOF0.0.16 looks like it'll be broken within 2 months anyway.21:47
brycehfor lack of better info, that's essentially what apw and I decided to do for now21:47
brycehif we wish to change it, it could be changed post-beta1, given archive admin blessing21:47
RAOFI don't think we'll want to, but good to know.21:48
Sarvattpretty much guaranteed to be at least 2 api breaks between now and what alot of the devs want to be in 1.0.0, seems pretty solid that they need more than 0.0.16 for 1.0.0 because they are working out how to stabilize it in a way thats compatable with the memory manager rewrite in the ~1 year from now timeframe21:52
bjsniderSarvatt, you're talking about nouveau?21:55
Sarvatttheres also the issue of them putting nouveau_class.h into libdrm for some reason but thats not that big of a deal since lucid wont have mesa support.21:55
Sarvattyep21:56
bjsniderlinus ain't gonna like that21:56
Sarvattnope :)21:56
Sarvattbut it looks like by then there will be a generic KMS fallback to guard against these things so you can at least get into X21:57
RAOFWell, you can do that now, can't you?  We should be falling back on fbdev to get to X.21:57
RAOF(And it worked for me, last time I tried it)21:58
brycehok yeah this all sounds good to me.  obviously we can't chase upstream forever so if the 16 api isn't likely to be The One, let's not knock ourselves out trying to get it.22:00
brycehif that limits our backporting abilities, well such is life22:00
apwbryceh, ... that sounds like a sound position22:00
brycehapw, right on cue :-)22:00
brycehok sounds like we're decided then22:01
LandswellsongGuys, sorry for storming in, does anybody knows if Xorg ubuntu's team accept part time job applications?22:01
tjaaltonSarvatt: what do I need to get just the nouveau gallium for lucid? rebuild mesa 7.8 from edgers?22:03
brycehLandswellsong, if you mean canonical, no not to my knowledge22:03
Landswellsongbryceh: yep them. so it's fulltime-only?22:04
brycehLandswellsong, *nod*22:04
SarvattRAOF: afaik if you boot with 0.0.16 api, have libdrm 0.0.15, have nouveau installed compiled against 0.0.15, nouveau is going to try to claim it and fail because of the drm vs things just working in slow mode in the future22:04
brycehLandswellsong, ask canonical hr for a definitive answer; probably depends a bit on the role in question22:05
Sarvatttjaalton: ya need libdrm nouveau a .34 kernel *and* mesa22:05
Landswellsongbryceh: are they present on IRC?22:05
brycehLandswellsong, don't think so22:06
tjaaltonSarvatt: oh, because of the api bump?22:06
Sarvattyup22:06
tjaaltonduh22:06
Landswellsongbryceh: thanks a lot22:06
Sarvatti put lbm-nouveau with the api bump in the PPA, for now you can just manually blacklist nouveau/rebuild initramfs22:06
Sarvattneed to update the ddx in edgers now and add a modprobe conf to blacklist nouveau to it22:07
Sarvatthmm wonder if i should blacklist drm/ttm/drm_kms_helper too22:10
Sarvattnaah shouldn't need to, lbm-nouveau should only load the lbm- renamed ones22:10
BUGabundoo/22:13
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rye[fixing-x]hello22:21
BUGabundohey rye[fixing-x]22:21
rye[fixing-x]after the latest update I am unable to start my X22:22
rye[fixing-x]here's the dmesg - http://paste.ubuntu.com/391310/22:22
rye[fixing-x]the first item is that plymouth does not start, afterwards the X session looks extremely strange - green bars only22:23
rye[fixing-x]as I understand, there was some change to make nouveau driver the default22:24
rye[fixing-x]so I went forward and purged my nvidia modules to make it as clean as possible, and moved xorg.conf to a backup file22:25
rye[fixing-x]after this I can see the green bars (previously the screen was shutting down along with the backlight)22:26
* rye[fixing-x] finished my sad story22:26
rye[fixing-x]BUGabundo, are there some related reports of this?22:26
BUGabundorye[fixing-x]: what distro, version , gpu, and drivers?22:27
BUGabundocause if it is lucid with nvidia, just purge plymouth22:27
rye[fixing-x]BUGabundo, lucid, nvidia, nouveau drivers (I believe)22:29
rye[fixing-x]BUGabundo, so I need to purge plymouth or I can remove splash from boot params?22:29
BUGabundopurge it22:31
SarvattRAOF: this look right? http://pastebin.com/eiA2GkC222:32
Sarvattand http://pastebin.com/drMm5vVs22:33
Sarvatt-16 kernel is in btw, dont we have to remove the lbm dep on the ddx now?22:36
Sarvattgoing to just have a hard dep on the versioned lbm in edgers I guess22:37
rye[fixing-x]no compiz in nouveau, right?22:42
rye[fixing-x]BUGabundo, btw, thanks. Removed plymouth and got X back22:42
BUGabundocool22:42
BUGabundoyou can have 3D with nouveau22:42
BUGabundowith the version in xodger ppa22:42
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RAOFSarvatt: Yeah, once the -16 kernel is in, pointed at by linux-meta, and mirrored we can drop the lbm dep.22:49
Sarvattits in already, i got it this morning22:53
Sarvattunless that was a new ppa one and i didnt notice..22:53
Sarvattoops, postrm had an error in it, silly mistake22:54
Sarvattok new ddx uploaded to edgers with the blacklist changes and such22:54
Sarvattboth of my nvidia laptops are in use so i cant test any of this out :(22:56
Sarvattbtw it might be good to get the word out about the ignorelid module option on nouveau for people having black screen after boot problems22:59
Sarvatton laptops23:00
BUGabundolike me ?23:01
Sarvattif you're having that problem with nouveau yeah23:02
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, and me23:03
Sarvattboot with nouveau.ignorelid=1 with the 2.6.32-16 kernel, or lbm-nouveau.ignorelid=1 with xorg-edgers PPA23:03
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, additionally, the VTs were unusable so if I had no other laptop then it would take a while to understand what to blame...23:03
Sarvattif it fixes it for you file a bug with dmesg and dmidecode output, subscribe me to it and i'll upstream a quirk for your machine23:04
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, I got X back when I purged the plymouth, as BUGabundo suggested23:06
Sarvattalrighty, that wasnt the problem then23:06
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, are lid detection and plymouth connected?23:06
Sarvattnah plymouth has lots of issues right now and its not strange to have it boot up to a blank screen sometimes :D23:07
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, are there any public announcement that will make sure people with nVidia hw will know that they will not have 3d in Lucid ?23:08
rye[fixing-x]including compiz?23:08
Sarvattdarnit, looks like I screwed up the lbm-nouveau packaging23:09
RAOFrye[fixing-x]: No, but that's because it's the status-quo.23:09
Sarvattahhh darnit, control.stub.in overwrote the control.stub23:10
RAOFrye[fixing-x]: We're expecting users who want 3D to install the proprietary nvidia drivers, just like they do today.  Nouveau is being used as a better -nv.23:10
Sarvattno nouveau for edgers till tomorrow, dont have time to rewrite the control a third time23:10
rye[fixing-x]RAOF, so if I got my X broken with the latest upgrades then it was not really intended?23:11
RAOFIf you got your X broken with the lates upgrades, I'd like you to file a bug!23:12
rye[fixing-x]RAOF, here's what I got after reboot- http://paste.ubuntu.com/391310/23:13
Sarvatthmm, not sure what i need to do to make sure the nouveau stuff i add to control and control.stub persists after building the source package..23:13
rye[fixing-x]omg... ACPI Warning: _BQC returned an invalid level (20090903/video-631) - not again.... regression in kernel..23:13
RAOFSarvatt: You're after control.stub.in and control.d/flavour-something-or-other23:14
Sarvattyour bios is screwed up, probably designed for windows only like most HP's23:14
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, no, I had this fixed in Karmic, there was a bug in the kernel leading to missing backlight support23:15
Sarvattdo you have a platform driver to handle backlight for your machine?23:16
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, but backlight is working now...23:16
rye[fixing-x]omg.23:16
Sarvattlike thinkpad-acpi or something23:17
rye[fixing-x]Ok, I will try to restore my system to previous state, reproduce the actual failure with nvidia drivers and report if that is reproducible23:17
Sarvattits just a warning, if you have a platform driver handling backlight controls anyway it should be fine23:17
SarvattRAOF: hmm control.stub.in only has 2 packages in it23:19
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, frankly speaking, i don't remember the details - bug 428910. Ok, restoring proprietary nvidia drivers23:20
ubottuLaunchpad bug 428910 in linux "Acer Aspire 5520 has backlight broken in Karmic Koala" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/42891023:20
Sarvattahah control.d/flavour-control.stub23:20
Sarvattcomment #5 in that bug explains the problem pretty clearly23:21
Sarvatthmm did tseliot remove the nouveau blacklist from nvidia-current and replace it with lbm-nouveau?23:23
RAOFI thought both were blacklisted.23:25
RAOFThat could cause some consternation if so!23:25
Sarvatthmm I see it in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf23:26
Sarvatthttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/53446923:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 534469 in nvidia-graphics-drivers "Failed To Load NVIDIA 195.36.08 Kernel modules" [Undecided,New]23:26
Sarvattits not blacklisted for that person23:26
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, are you talking about my case?23:29
Sarvattno23:29
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, i see that something cannot open nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf on boot, btw23:30
Sarvattreally?23:31
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, yes, but the symlink is actually present23:31
Sarvattugh, dont tell me that update-initramfs doesn't pack .conf's that are links in the initrd23:31
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, will unpack the initrd now...23:32
Sarvattthat'd mean all blob users are broken with the -16 kernel right now23:32
RAOFSarvatt: Yeah.  Are you investigating, or shall I?23:33
RAOFSarvatt: That's the sort of OMG bug that warrants a bit of attention :)23:33
Sarvattit's in my 2.6.32-15 initrd23:34
Sarvattso thats not the problem at least23:34
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, nvidia-graphics-drivers is a symlink to /etc/alternatives symlink that links to /usr/lib/nvidia-current/modprobe.conf23:35
* rye[fixing-x] is decompressing my initrd...23:36
Sarvattyep, i was  just worried it wasn't packing symlinks into the initrd but it is23:36
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, but is it going that deep ?23:36
Sarvattits not a symlink in the initrd23:37
rye[fixing-x]true23:38
Sarvattupgrading this machine to -16 now to see if theres anything screwy there23:39
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, I get 'Failed to open config file nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf: No such file or directory'23:43
Sarvattwhere?23:43
rye[fixing-x]don't see the path though :-/23:43
Sarvattyou get that during boot?23:44
rye[fixing-x]during the boot procedure right after fsck finishes checking the drives23:44
rye[fixing-x]hm... actually during fsck checks the drives...23:44
Sarvattok thats not good..23:45
RAOFSing out if you'd like some help.23:45
bjsniderRAOF is just itching to get in on this one23:46
rye[fixing-x]I might have not noticed it earlier because there were no nouveau drivers that could grab the hw w/o the blacklist rules, right?23:47
* RAOF will be very happy to let Sarvatt handle it while RAOF fixes f-spot mem leaks.23:47
Sarvattthere was though, lbm-nouveau but it wasn't in the same directory as the other drivers so it probably got checked to load23:47
SarvattI don't know whats up RAOF23:47
Sarvattmy nvidia box didn't survive a reboot and i'm not at home with it :(23:48
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, sorry about that :(23:49
Sarvattchecked to load after it tried to load nvidia23:49
SarvattI meant*23:49
RAOFOk.  I'll have a look.23:50
rye[fixing-x]hm, if that is in initrd... no, fsck is not finished, so ...23:50
rye[fixing-x]hm23:51
rye[fixing-x]I have /usr on a separate partition. Assuming that / gets mounted early, with /etc having modprobe symlink pointing to not-yet-existing /usr...23:52
Sarvattchanging nvidia-* to install seperate .conf's instead of an alternative is probably what needs to be done23:52
RAOFrye[fixing-x]: That's a good thought; we (try to) support /usr on a separate partition, but it's not exactly a common configuration.23:54
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, let me remove the symlink and make it a proper file...23:54
Sarvattrye[fixing-x]: when you extract your initrd the etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-whatever.conf has the right contents in it?23:54
Sarvattgzip -dc < /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-16-generic  | cpio -i23:55
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, yes, the initrd has a regular file, not a symlink 23:55
Sarvattwill extract it to the current directory23:55
* rye[fixing-x] reboots the nVidia box with symlink on the root fs replaced with a normal file23:57
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, and it workeds23:57
Sarvattyou should be able to just manually add a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with blacklist nouveau in it, sudo update-initramfs -u then reboot to see if that works where the symlink doesnt23:57
rye[fixing-x]*worked23:57
Sarvattah23:58
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, so that means that everyone with /usr on a separate partition will have such issue with -1623:58
rye[fixing-x]Sarvatt, but I still can't understand why it uses the live /, not initrd  one :-/23:58
Sarvattpossibly even without /usr seperate which is the worrying thing :(23:58
Sarvattif /usr is on / and / is getting fscked..23:59
RAOFI'm rebooting now to check.23:59

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