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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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