Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:57:05 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: Thanks for your advice! Camaleón wrote:  Okay, so from now on you are using the nv driver, right? Yes, NV for now. Don't forget to give nouveau a whirl from a livecd media, it will be your better option in the future if you want

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Potato Jim
Thanks for your advice! Camaleón wrote:   Okay, so from now on you are using the nv driver, right? Yes, NV for now. I realized that I now have one new issue, though not as bothersome as the original.  When I CTRL+ALT+F* into a terminal window, or during the start-up/shut-down messages (when X

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:25 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: Potato Jim, please adjust your MUA to don't posting on the top, get right quoting (you forced me to delete the full message reference because it was poorly formatted ;-( ) and there's no need to send me a copy of the message, I read the

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-21 11:59 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:25 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: The suggestions on that page about blacklisting nouveau to disable KMS did not work. What exactly did you try and what exactly did you get? Precision does matter. It seems he tried to

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Potato Jim
I first tried blacklisting nouveau by issuing the following command: echo blacklist nouveau  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf ...this was per the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Disabling_KMS Next, I did as Sven guessed and un-blacklisted nvidiafb by commenting

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Potato Jim
SOLVED. 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

X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
Hi Everyone, I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm experiencing, evidently with X:  The windows are all blank.  Even at the login screen, I can't see the username,other selection list -- just a

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: Hi Everyone, Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-) I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm experiencing,

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: Hi Everyone, Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-) I installed Deb 6.0.4