Hi I just recently installed the latest Trisquel "toutatis" on an older
system. I must say that overall I am extremely impressed! It runs great and
feels wonderful to be 100% free :) Ran into a slightly strange issue from a
seemingly routine package upgrade though...
After installing from the disk, I get Direct rendering without any
problems... Also, my monitor resolution is correctly detected. The video
card is an nv25 nvidia card - I think it is an old geforce 4200ti...
This is the output from glxinfo from a fresh install (everything looks
great):
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direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI nv25 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
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My Monitor is an HP HWP 20" monitor with a resolution of 1600x900 - FRom a
fresh install this is also correctly detected and automatically configured.
...
However, after running aptitude upgrade, Nouveau breaks and My monitor is
not no longer properly recognized. I am stuck in software rendering at
1024x768. Reinstalling a fresh system from disk remedied the problem.
Is it not safe to upgrade packages at this time? I assumed that I had the
most up to date packages since I selected the option to download the latest
versions when I installed the system. However, update manager and aptitude
upgrade show a 117 packages that are eligible for upgrade. I am a bit
nervous about running any further updates right now.
