It is the most efficient way to tell antiX what to do.
In my case blacklisting the nvidiafb and rivafb drivers and adding the nouveau driver worked for my card.ĭon’t worry about using the command line. But it can be used by force feeding the correct driver. The modern kernel no longer supports your card. You will probably have to do something similar, but with the drivers for your video card. Then adding to the blacklist at /etc/modprobe.d/. The cheat codes “xorg=nouveau” and “bp=b9” were the key for me. It all looked properly setup for nouveau. I logged in and then took another look at inxi, lsmod and xorg.log. Rebooted.Īfter reboot the X desktop came up. So I added “blacklist nvidiafb” and “blacklist rivafb” to the blacklist files in /etc/modprobe.d/. I was reminded by a forum member that sometimes the nvidiafb module has to be blacklisted for nouveau to work.
Nouveau was loading but so was the nvidiafb and rivafb modules. I logged in and then checked inxi and lsmod. After booting the X system did not start. Then I typed in the cheat codes “xorg=nouveau” and “bp=b9” then hit enter to continue the boot.Ī bash shell came up and I entered “modprobe nouveau”, enter, then used “Ctrl-d” to continue the boot.Įventually the Live desktop came on screen. Here’s what I did to get antiX-17 installed on this old Pentium-III:Īfter booting with the Live DVD I changed the F7 video selection to “default”.
All I had to do was use some “cheat codes” on the boot line from the live DVD and add to a blacklist file in /etc/modprobe.d/. As it turns out I did not have to change the kernel or compile an old driver to work. Well, it took awhile but I finally got this problem solved. The important part is in the next to last post on that thread.