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[Chris Halse Rogers <chalserogers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, this isn't quite a nouveau bug; the problem here is that the
initramfs forcibly loads the i915 driver before pretty much anything
else happens.  This loads the drm module from the initramfs, which isn't
the same version as the one nouveau needs (and is in updates/dkms).
When nouveau tries to load, it can't load the newer drm module (because
there's one already loaded), and so it fails to load entirely.

I _think_ that if you rebuild your initramfs after installing
nouveau-kernel-source, then the newer drm module will end up in the
initramfs.  I'm not sure about this, however.

I'm also not sure what else nouveau could do about this; it's really an
update-initramfs problem.

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nouveau DRM fails to install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411186
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