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Re: can't get Nouveau console



On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 08:15:14AM -0700, Roy Bixler wrote:
> I also attach a screenshot I took showing what happens with Nouveau,
> where I end up in the debugger and don't think I can otherwise save
> the "dmesg" output.  I did try once booting a Nouveau-enabled kernel
> under VESA mode.  I saw Nouveau driver lines similar to what I saw
> under Linux and I could try taking a screenshot of those, except that
> there are many of them and I'm not sure which ones would be most
> useful.  How should I proceed?

I didn't realise that I could do a "dmesg" within DDB, but now I have
a screenshot of "dmesg" output which could be useful.  It shows that
Nouveau finds 256MB of memory (PFB) but then fails to map a PRAMIN
BAR.  Screenshot attached.

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
"The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment."
-- Richard P. Feynman

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