Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:20:37AM EST, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 14. 01. 2011 09:24:32 je Chris Jones napisal(a):
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>> On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the
>> default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream
>> TV news channels or play .flv videos.
> It may be that the nv driver you use is simply slower than the
> proprietary nvidia driver.
At first glance, does not account for the fact that I do see some crappy
video with other mplayer -vo's such as ‘sdl’ or ‘x11’.
> See http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation-1 for
> installing the proprietary nvidia driver from the Debian repositories.
>> Hoping that this might be a simple case of debian ’lenny’ being too old
>> for my hardware and that I only needed to be patient and the problem
>> would take care of itself, I proceeded to boot into debian ‘squeeze’,
>> but unfortunately, I got the exact same results as on lenny: no video
>> with ‘xv’, very choppy sound with ‘sdl’, and xvinfo outputs the same
>> three messages as above.
>
> Unless you have very specific needs, Squeeze is the way to go on a laptop
> machine.
Since it will happen any time soon, I decided it made more sense to wait
till squeeze becomes stable..
> A more recent kernel, more hardware is supported, ext4 filesystem,
> and so on. There is really no reason to stick with Lenny in your case
> as far as I can see (but the decision is yours, of course).
I have an up-to-date squeeze environment ready to roll.. but I'm having
the exact same problem with it.. Looks like regardless of the version,
‘nv’ doesn't play well with my video card.
>> I am not really keen on installing the ‘nvidia’ driver on the debian
>> systems,
> You can say that again.
I ran a quick test about a month ago with the proprietary driver, plus
patched kernel.. etc. and I what I saw was that hardware rendering
worked fine. But the linux console was non functional. Let me login,
type startx, etc. but all I could see was a black screen. Impractical
for normal utilization..
This problem is fixed with the newer version of the ‘nvidia’ driver that
comes with ubuntu 10.10. Ibid. squeeze, presumably.
>> but on the other hand, it would be nice to be able to take a quick
>> look at the news and such without having to reboot..
>>
>> Is this situation to be expected, or is there any way I could get
>> this to work?
> I'm afraid it's the former. Freedom never comes cheap (i.e. without
> sacrifice).
I'll give the ‘nouveau’ driver a run for its money when I'm done
switching to squeeze.
cj
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