Can Antix use nouveau driver?

[Member bluedxca93]

Hi,
is booting from antix with nouveau driver possible?
For now i did start it with xorg=fbdev which works better than vesa. Or do i have to test the nvidia driver works?

first part of hwinfo:

cpu:                                                            
                       AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core Processor, 1550 MHz
                       AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core Processor, 1550 MHz
                       AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core Processor, 3500 MHz
                       AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core Processor, 1550 MHz
keyboard:
  /dev/input/event3    [Maxxter] Optical gaming mouse
  /dev/input/event0    Holtek Keyboard
mouse:
  /dev/input/mice      [Maxxter] Optical gaming mouse
graphics card:
                       nVidia GP108 [GeForce GT 1030]
sound:
                       AMD Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio Controller
                       nVidia GP108 High Definition Audio Controller
storage:
                       AMD 300 Series Chipset SATA Controller
                       AMD FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]

[Member Xecure]

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Remove other related boot parameters and try:
xorg=nouveau nouveau.modeset=1

Also, if you want help, give us the output of inxi -Gxxx

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member bluedxca93]

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Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 vendor: ZOTAC driver: N/A bus ID: 07:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:1d01 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: none unloaded: fbdev 
  resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 

xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 1680 x 1050, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      0.00* 

Get no x server running aside from fbdev and vesa.
Your suggested bootup optioon causes x server crashing and in Xo log ist states that there is no monitor attached while there is.

I do try again tomorrow.

Thx very much for your reply and your help. It seems just like a very little step missing.

[Member Xecure]

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It is true (for my particular hybrid laptop). I tried with different kernels (4.9, 4.19 and a remaster with 5.8) and various boot options (like i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=1 xorg=nouveau and even vcard=menu to select the card directly without any other xorg parameter), but I wasn’t able to boot to X with nouveau driver option. I can only boot in modesetting (normal mode for me) or xorg=intel
My case may be different (hybrid intel+nvidia graphics on a laptop), and disabling the intel i915 driver doesn’t let me boot to X.
My inxi -G shows

Graphics:   Device-1: Intel 3erd gen Core processor Graphics driver: N/A
            Device-2: NVIDIA GF108M [Geforce GT 630M] driver: nouveau v: kernel
            Display: server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau tty:124x34

But X gets stuck and I can only log in from tty.

The above test isn’t helpfull for your case (and I am not trying to blame the nouveu driver for my specific hybrid computer).

Is anyone else experiencing problems with nouveau? Can anyone provide any guidance?

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member seaken64]

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Have you tried different kernels? That’s pretty recent hardware. Kernel is 4.9 I think in antiX. Maybe experiment with newer kernel?

seaken64

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes, a try with a newer kernel should be made for this hardware. There is the possibility to download an iso with the 4.19 kernel on the download page.

Sharing my experiences: On my laptop with a legacy nvidia-card , there’s no problem. The live-isos boot and installed too with nouveau, without any action from my side.
On my Desktop with a 960gtx-card , i have to use “xorg=nouveau nouveau.modeset=1” from above for boot. Otherwise it stops after “starting init” . Same on MX-Linux.

[Member SolusSpider]

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Xecure wrote:

Remove other related boot parameters and try:
xorg=nouveau nouveau.modeset=1

Thank you so very much!!!
See https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-22-dwm-unofficial-spin/page/3/#post-97587

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