Hi Karsten, On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Karsten Malcher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Vincent, > > i didn't get your email from Sat, 9 Aug 2014 or from the debian bug system. > So i see it today in the bug system.
Fix your smtp server so that it stops timing out. > So i installed > # aptitude install nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx nvidia-kernel-dkms No, just install nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx (as suggested by nvidia-detect); its dependencies will ensure that you have a working nvidia 173.xx driver installed. Installing nvidia-kernel-dkms on wheezy will actually pull in the default 304.xx driver series, which is obviously not what you want. If you take a look at the log file you attached in your followup message... [ 42.428] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.117 Tue Nov 26 21:45:09 PST 2013 [ 42.445] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU installed in this system is [ 42.445] (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers. [ 42.445] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for [ 42.445] (WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 304.117 NVIDIA driver will ignore [ 42.445] (WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe... [ 42.445] (EE) No devices detected. It's no surprise that X won't load, given that you're trying to use the nvidia 304.xx driver series with hardware that doesn't support it. > For a usable system with X there should be always a running fallback like in > windows. > It should be nouveau for NVidia. > > I don't know exactly what Knoppix is doing, but here you get a running X in > nearly all cases!? > Why this is not possible in Debian? nouveau should work, yes; if it doesn't, please file a bug against the kernel. Have you tried fetching a kernel from wheezy-backports and seeing if you can run nouveau using a newer kernel? Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
