Comment 34 for bug 551668

(In reply to comment #21)
> Is there any way I can debug this issue? Maybe modify some other file I can
> modify? Delete the older modules? Thank you for your patience.

I suggest perhaps deleting any directory in /lib/modules that contains nouveau.ko/drm.ko and friends, then reinstalling them from the nouveau git tree you built.

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> Btw, when will this code merge into mainstream? I was wondering if we'll see it
> in next release of major distros.

The patches are queued for kernel 3.2.