On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:21:17 +0200, Sven wrote in message
<87ipu8ch82@turtle.gmx.de>:
> On 2011-04-21 05:54 +0200, Joe Neal wrote:
>
> > I recently upgraded my sid box with a Gforce 8600. Following a
> > reboot the binary nvidia drivers would only give me a screen
> > resolution so small it was unusable and nouveau failed to find any
> > usable resolutions at all. Analysis of recent X logs indicated
> > that in the case of both drivers, EDID reads were failing,
> > providing X with no data. When testing with a GRML live CD, EDID
> > data was returned using nouveau, so this isn't a hardware problem.
> >
> > Since the problem occurs with both nvidia drivers, it's not a driver
> > problem. Since EDID reads work properly with the GRML live CD it's
> > not a hardware problem. I don't think any X packages have been
> > upgraded at all since the last boot that could have caused the
> > problem. I'm at a loss as to where the problem is coming from.
> >
> > Any guesses?
>
> I don't really have an idea myself, but some people reported a problem
> with corrupted EDID on
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34554. The information
> in that bug may be useful.
>
> Sven
>
>
..in WAG mode, I use radeon on all my graphics HW, and have these on my
lab laptop (or labtop ;o)), you want ditto for nouveau, or use nvidea:
arnt@celsius:~/Documents$ dpkg -l |grep radeon |fmt -tu
ii libdrm-radeon1 2.4.25-1 Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel
DRM services -- runtime
ii radeontool 1.6.1-1 utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions
on laptops
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.14.1-1+exp1 X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI
Radeon display driver
arnt@celsius:~/Documents$ dpkg -l |grep drm |fmt -tu
ii libdrm-intel1 2.4.25-1 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel
DRM services -- runtime
rc libdrm-nouveau1 2.4.22-2 Userspace interface to nouveau-specific
kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.25-1 Userspace interface to nouveau-specific
kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii libdrm-radeon1 2.4.25-1 Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel
DRM services -- runtime
ii libdrm2 2.4.25-1 Userspace interface to kernel DRM services --
runtime
rc plymouth-drm 0.8.3-18 Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (DRM)
arnt@celsius:~/Documents$
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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