On 2014-10-01 19:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-10-01 17:36 +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
>
>> I am unable to use nouveau on my MacBook 5,1
>>
>> AFAIU in http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
>> the chipset 9400M is in the NV50 group and is supported in version 1.0.11
>
> Correct, this chipset has been supported for a long time.
>
>> but looking in the log (see below around line 120), NV50 is not in the list
>> of "supported chipsets"
>
> That is red herring.
>
>> so X stops claiming "no screen found"
>
> Probably that's #740953 which is mostly seen on Macs. AFAIK no solution
> has been found yet, but if you are willing to build your own kernel,
> unsetting CONFIG_X86_SYSFB reportedly helps.
Good news for you: the problem is supposed to be fixed in Linux 3.16.5¹.
Could you please try the 3.16-3-amd64 kernel² from unstable?
TIA,
Sven
¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740953#67
² https://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-3.16-3-amd64
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