RE: Display Resolution

[Nelson Green <nelsongreen84@hotmail.com>]

> The nouveau version in squeeze does not support these cards, they should
> work in wheezy though.
> 
> > I'm reluctant to suggest this, 
> > but you probably need the nvidia driver (package nvidia-glx in section 
> > non-free) to get full support for your cards.
> 
> Let's hope that security is not Nelson's main concern then¹.
> 
> Cheers,
>        Sven
> 
> 
> ¹ http://lwn.net/Articles/509131/
>

Of course security is a concern. Otherwise I'd spend a lot of money on an insecure, propriety OS full of really cool baubles. : )

I think the output of dmesg is telling me my driver does not support the cards:

     nouveau 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 24
     nouveau 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
     nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Unsupported chipset 0x0c1c00a1
     nouveau 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
     nouveau: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22
     nouveau 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0002 -> 0003)
     nouveau 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 30 (level, low) -> IRQ 30
     nouveau 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
     nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Unsupported chipset 0x0c1c00a1
     nouveau 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
     nouveau: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -22

However, since this is a desktop system and not a production server, Wheezy is an option that I had already wondered about. In fact, I already had downloaded it before posting. Normally I exhaust all options before asking for help, but with my schedule this and next week I opted to see if there was an easy solution that I had just overlooked.

I will probably come in tomorrow to install Wheezy, and I will report back.

Thanks to everyone for the help so far!