Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 01/12/2016 10:17 PM, lee wrote: Thanks for helping, I' try to answer in-line. Håkon Alstadheim writes: I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel 3.14.*, so I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Just for the record: Tried switcing off gfx_passthru, and over to device-model qemu-xen. This gave me another (virtual) graphics-card on this vm. After adding BusID "00:05:0" to the device section, I'm right back where I started :-( On 01/13/2016 10:19 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-12 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 11. jan. 2016 18:22, skrev Alexander Kapshuk: [...] > Section "Device" > > Identifier "noveau device" > > > Typo here. This should read 'nouveau'. > Thanks for checking, but I believe the Identifier is just for human consumption, i.e. it does not matter. The Driver line has it spelled

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-12 Thread lee
Håkon Alstadheim writes: > I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL > [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after > kernel 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble > getting nouveau to work at all,

[gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-11 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble getting nouveau to work at all, it is giving me a blank screen and apparently not grabbing

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

2016-01-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro > FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel > 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble