Nouveau - Oct 2019 - nouveau kernel module will not load on old Sony Vaio laptop with 8400M GT

is there anyone here who can help with:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853
nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with NVIDIA
G86M
[GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426

???
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do you know if it used to work with older kernels? If yes, maybe a git
bisect on the kernel could help

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:48 AM Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> is there anyone here who can help with:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853
> nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop with
NVIDIA G86M
> [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426
>
> ???
> --
> Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.
>
>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>
> Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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Karol Herbst composed on 2019-10-16 15:25 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> is there anyone here who can help with:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853
>> nouveau kernel module won't load (not available) on Sony laptop
with NVIDIA G86M
>> [GeForce 8400M GT] ID: 10de:0426
>> ???
> do you know if it used to work with older kernels? If yes, maybe a git
> bisect on the kernel could help
I've updated the bug to indicate 3.16.7 and 4.2.6 kernels will load the
kernel
nouveau module without producing expected X results, along with Xorg.0.logs.
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