blackscreen console and X due to DDC/EDID failure

[Felix Miata]

[ T27] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[ T27] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-I-1
[ T27] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DDC responded, but no EDID for HDMI-A-1

This report is to indicate for the record that regression report
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/385>
created September 2024 applies to 24.04 with every
linux-image-generic version installed since the last 6.6.x.

Intel Core2 Duo E7500
NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 640] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nouveau
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1,DVI-I-1
    empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fc1

# grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS"
# apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
linux-image-generic:
  Installed: 6.8.0-55.57
  Candidate: 6.8.0-55.57
  Version table:
 *** 6.8.0-55.57 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.8.0-31.31 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
# apt-cache policy nouveau-firmware
nouveau-firmware:
  Installed: 20091212-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 20091212-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 20091212-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# apt-cache policy linux-firmware
linux-firmware:
  Installed: 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.9
  Candidate: 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.9
  Version table:
 *** 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.9 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

[Felix Miata (mrmazda)]

This input form refused to accept linux-image-generic, linux-modules-generic, linux-image-6.8.0-55-generic, nouveau-firmware, linux-firmware and similar attempts, so "I don't know" was the only way forward to successfully submit.