On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:33:22 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > SOLVED.
Great! :-) > In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having > updated the wiki. I have now looked at the updated wiki and the > suggested new xorg.conf file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm > now using the NV driver. More precisely, I blacklisted nouveau in a > blacklist-nouveau.conf file and created a new xorg.conf file, > specifying the NV driver (I also re-blacklisted nvidiafb in /etc > /modeprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf ). Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right? > Camaleón and Sven, thank you both for your help! And thanks for > bearing with my newbie faux pas. :) Glad you finally could solved it. > Sven, you mentioned that neither NV nor Nvidia legacy will work > whenever I eventually upgrade to Wheezy. Can you suggest what I > prepare to do? > > Thanks again! > Jim My guess is that your VGA is very old and that can be a problem. - "NV" driver is dropped (not present) since wheezy so this won't be an option for you. - "Nouveau" is the new and natural replacement for the open source driver but it can have problems with your hardware, so better if you can test it from a LiveCD of any recent distribution to see how it goes, though probably any error present in squeezy has been fixed in wheezy. - "Nvidia legacy" should also work, but maybe you need to get it from nvidia sources directly and compile by your own in the event they release a compatible version that works with newer xorg xserver packages. More information exposing the problematic can be found in a couple of Debian bugs reports, e.g.: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660158 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643584 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jn0r3a$ha3$7...@dough.gmane.org
