On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:39:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter:
>>>
>>>video=VGA-1:1024x76
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter:
>>
>>video=VGA-1:1024x768@87i
>>
>> ...
>
> Please add these findings to the bug report.
I w
On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Actually, now that I think about it, this bug report has probably been
> sitting on the wrong queue all this time. I reported the bug against
> package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, which is a user-space X driver. But
> the driver uses kernel mode
On Du, 24 apr 11, 16:19:05, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> But that brings up another issue, which is reporting bugs upstream.
> The official Debian policy is "Don't report bugs upstream". I quote from
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting:
>
>Don't file bugs upstream
>
>If you file a bug i
On 2011-04-24 15:19:05 Stephen Powell wrote:
> Don't file bugs upstream
>
> If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream software
> maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists only in
>Debian. If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug
>
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:34:13 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:57:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work
>> with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See
>>
>>http
On Sb, 23 apr 11, 17:57:07, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work
> with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See
>
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589452
>
> No response.
You could try
On 2011-04-24 00:14 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they
> were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing.
They were. Bug #383465ยน had been ignored for three releases already
which is really to
In <4db35418.50...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
>But OP is correct that nv *works*. *Everywhere*.
I didn't claim otherwise. It also doesn't change the fact that it is not
currently maintained. If you'd like it maintained, I suggest you chip in
resources, possibly pooling them with other inter
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:39 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
>
> It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still
> maintained by the X.org developers for a while.
On 04/23/2011 05:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In<1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
Stephen Powell wrote:
I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still
mai
On 04/23/2011 04:57 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did.
I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor,
an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order
to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must
In <1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
Stephen Powell wrote:
>I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still
maintained by the X.org developers for a while. However,
I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did.
I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor,
an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order
to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must use an
interlaced video mode. (There is a 1024x
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