On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:55:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400): > >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err...@free.fr wrote: > >>>what is your hadware? >>>graphic card? >>>and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or >>>non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc. > >> It's an eMachines desktop which was originally supplied with Windows >> 7. I wiped Windows and loaded on Wheezy from a live DVD. The CPU is an >> Athlon II x2 220 @ 800 MHz. The graphics (on the motherboard) is a >> GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430 rev a2. > >This has been a problematic gfxchip for more than one user over the years. >Try adding this to the kernel cmdline: > > nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 > >I have a machine with the same gfxchip on its motherboard, >https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/K9N6PGM2V.html >but currently it doesn't have any Debian installed on it to check which if >any releases are helped by it. It does have openSUSE 13.1 (kernel 3.12, >server 1.14.3), 13.2 (kernel 3.16, server 1.16.1), 42.1 (kernel 4.1, server >1.17.2) and Tumbleweed (kernel 4.7.4, server 1.18.4) installed. All four >suffer random brief video corruption running X. Tumbleweed seems to have >almost eliminated the corruption that is excessive and unacceptable in the >others. IIRC, last Debian tried on it was Wheezy with Gnome or Mate or >Cinnamon, and too much trouble or impossible at that time to actually use X. > >Something else to try is ensuring xserver-xorg-video-modesetting is >installed, then purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and all traces of NVidia's >proprietary driver bits. The modesetting driver has been getting quite some >attention from the devs: >http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX > >The original owner of this motherboard suffered to the extent he installed a >PCI gfxcard as a workaround when the motherboard was rather young. I got the >motherboard free when when he bought a new one that I installed after its >original RAM went bad. >
Thanks Felix, I'll give it a try as soon as I can persuade my wife to stay off the PC for a while, and report back. It will be a week or so though, as I've got a couple of chapters of a book to deliver with a deadline of next weekend. Brian.