On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:59 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > No, you're not helping. His video card need some firmware to work with > the nouveau driver. He needs to either put the firmware in /lib/firmware > or compile it into the kernel. If he read the syslog from the failed > boot he would see the kernel complaining about the lack of firmware. > Without the firmware his video card can't bring up the framebuffer.
Your advice is out of date - it was valid when Nouveau first entered the kernel, but the 2.6.34 kernel Alex is running does not use external firmware. Simon.
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