I had a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560 Ti in my desktop computer that had a dying
fan, so I saved up some money and upgraded to the GTX 970. Unfortunately,
Trisquel is now having trouble with the new card. I use the Cinnamon DE and
can only get it to boot into Software Rendering Mode. Which, okay, things
work, but it's not what I had. I can't even boot into the "Trisquel"
environment--I get a black screen and then it drops me back at the login
screen.
glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" returns a "Yes", but when I look at inxi
-Fxz I get:
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM204 [Geforce GTX 970]
bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1
drivers: (unloaded: fbdev, vesa) FAILED: noveau
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
Direct Rendering: Yes
I don't know why nouveau won't load. Is it because the two cards are of
different classes and the driver doesn't know what to do? Or is there
something else I'm missing?
