Bug#659378: the nouveau driver does not work at all with my machine (information about resolution of the problem)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> On 03/26/2012 12:57 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

>>> 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?

What I meant to ask is if you can reproduce the old problem, for
example by downgrading the kernel using a version from
http://snapshot.debian.org/ or by putting some appropriate incantation
in xorg.conf.  If you can't, then I'm fine with just closing this and
letting it remain a mystery for now.

What is your current kernel version?  (/proc/version should say, in
parentheses after the word "Debian".)  What other upgrades happened
between the non-working state and the working state?  (/var/log/dpkg.log*
or the aptitude or APT logs might help in determining that.)

[...]
> 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?

I am using the fbdev driver now and have "direct rendering: yes".  See
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/glxinfo for what this means.

The easiest way to see what xorg video driver you are using is probably

	grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log

> 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.

If you can reproduce this new problem, then a report would be valuable
(against xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or xserver-xorg-video-fbdev to
start, presumably).

Thanks,
Jonathan