Kms is broken on a mac mini (bios emulation mode)

kms shows up scrambled video on 320m nvidia using the open source nouveau drivers. nomodeset fixes this, but makes you use vesa so that breaks a whole other things. i'm using the the hdmi output with a dvi adapter. how can i go about in troubleshooting this?
straight hdmi does the same thing. im typing this from my hmdi tv with kms off
Last edited by garegin (2012-01-01 01:12:12)

Took to Apple Store and they fixed the unit with a new digital audio card. $49. I'm happy.

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