Ed, It seems somehow you do not have the kernel modesetting (KMS) module loading during boot. https://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting
After you boot, check if the nouveau module has been loaded into the kernel space. If not, add it to /etc/modules. Hope this helps, Antonio On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Ed Jabbour <e...@att.net> wrote: > ** > > Running testing, and using the nouveau driver for a GeForce 7150M / nForce > 630M GPU. X sporadically crashes to a black screen where things scroll by > too fast for me to read. I’ve tried to examine kern.log and Xorg.0.log, as > well as google searches. Xorg.0.log shows an error: > > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep EE > > [ 51.593] (EE) Failed to load module “modesetting” (module does not exist, > 0) > > > > and three warnings: > > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep WW > > [ 51.593] (WW) Warning, couldn’t open module modesetting > > [ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa > > [ 51.637] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev > > > > fbdev* and vesa are then unloaded: > > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep fbdev > > [ 51.654] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” > > [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev” > > [ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev > > [ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw” > > [ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw > > [ 51.628] (II) Module fbdev: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” > > [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “fbdev” > > [ 52.011] (II) Unloading fbdev > > [ 52.011] (II) UnloadSubModule: “fbdevhw” > > [ 52.012] (II) Unloading fbdevhw > > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep vesa > > [ 51.266] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4 > > [ 51.564] (II) LoadModule: “vesa” > > [ 51.565] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so > > [ 51.592] (II) Module vesa: vendor=”X.Org Foundation” > > [ 51.630] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa > > [ 51.636] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa > > [ 52.011] (II) UnloadModule: “vesa” > > [ 52.011] (II) Unloading vesa > > > > KMS is enabled in the kernel: > > > > cat /boot/config-3.10-3-686-pae|grep -i kms > > CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m > > CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y > > > > Might any of this be related to the X crash? I don’t think so, but then ... > > >
