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  1. Bug #556872
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 556872

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raboof (arnouten) wrote :

The blank screen is caused by the nouveau BIOS code not understanding the 0x3A opcode.

Support for this opcode has been added in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=877c1854cbc3f72c5e9948e5ff5a8f7e9d874d2e . This patch has not made it into 2.6.34, but it is in 2.6.34-git16.

I can confirm that with the 2.6.34-git16 kernel with nouveau included, the screen no longer blanks on startup, and X works with the non-proprietary nouveau driver out of the box.