Bug#659378: the nouveau driver does not work at all with my machine (information about resolution of the problem)
On 03/26/2012 12:57 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>> On 03/26/2012 02:36 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>> What kernel are you using these days? What
>>> kernel-side graphics driver? What userspace graphics stack?
>> It is the latest kernel in Wheezy 3.2.0-2-amd64. It is the nouveau
>> driver, and gnome-shell that are working together.
>>
>>> Do you know how the issue got resolved?
>> I am not sure if it is the updates that got this working, or the fact
>> that I purged the nvidia driver and removed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I
>> attach the problematic xorg.conf.
> Nice. If you make this file /etc/X11/xorg.conf again, do you get
> the same problems again?
Do you mean make it with Xorg -configure? It creates three Device
sections, with nouveau, visa and fbdev drivers, three Monitor sections,
and three Screen sections. If I remove fbdev and visa, with the
corresponding Monitor and Screen sections, the xserver does not start.
When I get home, I will test whether it is the existence of the file
alone that causes the xserver not to start. I will also test again with
the xorg.conf I sent you, just in case.
BTW, since glxinfo outputs Direct rendering: yes and the nouveau module
is listed in lsmod, that confirms that the nouveau driver is in use, right?
One more thing, when I turned on the screen today (already running
system), there was some graphic corruption: black areas that went on and
off, and I had to restart the xserver.
> Thanks for the update.
> Jonathan
Thanks,
Panayiotis
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