[Nouveau] i2c-dev driver corrupts display?

[Roger]

HARDWARE:
Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop
nVIDIA Geforce2 Go (NV11) with Intel AGP

PROBLEM:
Display corruption whenever nouveau module was loaded, seemingly at random.

CULPRIT:
Whenever the i2c-dev.ko driver/module was loaded, the display would become 
corrupted, or as if the timing became out of sync with hardware specifications, 
with weird moving pixels throughout the display.

If the i2c-dev is built into the kernel, possible the display would turn-off 
upon nouveau module loading, but could be possibly worked around (I think) by 
building the nouveau driver statically into the kernel, possibly loading prior 
to i2c-dev loading?

Been having this problem for many years, finally found it, and nothing found 
via Google on i2c-dev & nouveau.

WORKAROUND:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist i2c_dev

Or, rebuild the kernel without i2c-dev.

Quite a few Linux distributions either compile the i2c-dev into the kernel, or 
load the module during booting, creating significant display problems (as noted 
above) when trying to install from a Linux distribution CD/DVD.  Most people 
performing an install, I'm guessing, are then simply performing a nomodeset 
during boot and/or reverting to VESA/UVESAFB.


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Roger
http://rogerx.sdf.org/