On 17/06/10 07:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote:Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module "nouveau" by default seizes control of the graphics card which prevents the nVidia driver from loading.If you had installed the Nvidia driver the Debian way, this would not have happened, because the nvidia-kernel-common package blacklists the nouveau module which is the recommended way to prevent it from loading. See modprobe.conf(5). Sven
I have always experienced very mixed success installing the driver the Debian way - which is why I now resort to using the proprietary driver. Admittedly, this may be due to my own (quite profound) ignorance, but even when following step-by-step docs, the Debian way just doesn't seem to work. Googleearth complains and won't work, screen resolution goes to hell, and a number of associated issues plague me pursuing that route.
But that is good to know that nouveau gets blacklisted automatically using that method. I wonder why it has been included in the vanilla kernel in the first place - it certainly was a nasty surprise!
Anyway, FWIW, the method I described is a successful work around for those not using the Debian way.
AG