On 03/23/2014 10:31 PM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 card, and I've been unable to get this > card working correctly in jessie, including even booting the system > after installing. > > The system hangs at "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" unless I > specify the nomodeset kernel parameter. Blacklisting nouveau does not > keep the system from freezing without nomodeset. Modprobing nouveau or > the proprietary driver, or trying to start X with both modules > blacklisted will immediately freeze the system. I am not sure how to go > about diagnosing this problem, but it seems that the kernel (3.13) is > not terribly happy with this video card in general.
After fiddling with an... ahem... particular Debian-based distribution's live CD, I was able to figure out what the problem was. When booting this CD, the system would appear to boot normally, but when I would expect to be dumped into a desktop environment, both monitors turned off instead... what I would expect to see if the desktop were being displayed on some other monitor... Long story short, my motherboard's onboard Intel GPU was enabled in addition to the PCI-e nVIDIA GPU. Disabling the onboard GPU has resolved all of the problems I was experiencing. In fact, it's entirely possible that the onboard display was being activated. I didn't think of this because in Debian the attached monitors would still display whatever they last were displaying. Perhaps the system just wasn't completely deactivating the nVIDIA GPU, and so they displayed whatever they were, forever. I may turn the onboard GPU back on and attach a monitor to it to satisfy my curiosity. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A CF83 38F5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it. Additionally, by sending an email to ANY of my addresses or to ANY mailing lists to which I am subscribed, whether intentionally or accidentally, you are agreeing that I am "the intended recipient," and that I may do whatever I wish with the contents of any message received from you, unless a pre-existing agreement prohibits me from so doing. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/532fdaf1.3000...@chrishowie.com
