The NVIDIA packages and squeeze

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-09-21 19:22 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 18:23:40 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>
>> On 2010-09-21 15:59, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> > Do the nvidia packages do anything to prevent nouveau.ko from being
>> > loaded?
>> 
>> nvidia-kernel-common (all binary module packages and the dkms packages
>> depend on this package) installs a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d/
>> 
> That kind of sucks because it means that package has to be purged before
> nouveau can work again.  Oh well.

I don't think this is the case, because the X server (unlike udev) does
not invoke modprobe with the "-b" switch, so nouveau should still work
if you don't have an xorg.conf.  But people may wonder where their
gettys went (when KMS kicks in, it erases the screen contents leaving
only the blank cursor, and you have to press <enter> to see the login
prompt).

Sven