(In reply to Ilia Guterman from comment #52)
> i tested with 'nouveau.modeset=0' on kernel 4.5 and 4.6 on debian/sid and got
> the same results of screen flickering and seems like nothing inside of the
> nouveau driver getting called.

Right, `nouveau.modeset=0` wont’t prevent Nouveau from loading, however the
driver is in a "disable" state and won’t do a thing:

> modeset
> Whether the driver should be enabled. 0 for disabled, 1 for enabled, 2 for headless

(taken from the Nouveau wiki:
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModuleParameters/#modeset)