Nvidia chipset problems on Presario
I have an HP Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. Having no high-speed connection,
I have installed Debian 5.0.2 from the dvd set. This gives me kernel·
2.6.26-2-686. The Presario has an nvidia chipset (see output of lspci
below). The installer evidently fails to recognise this or doesn't have
the right drivers. Console writes to screen in a manner reminiscent of an
old teletype terminal. I installed the nvidia driver so that X now runs
acceptably fast and at the correct resolution (1366 x 768). But the console
remains slow. Also there is no sound. Presumably both these are driver
issues. For the sound, it seems clear the wrong modules are loaded, see
output of 'lsmod | grep snd' below.·
A further problem which may be connected is that the keyboard regularly
freezes. This appears to happen always after the ppp connection (to a
mobile phone acting as a GPRS modem) has been dropped by the supplier, but
this may be a coincidence. When it happens, it is impossible to give
keyboard input to any X-window, or to jump to a console. It does not appear
to be a "sleep" issue, as it does not occur after closing the lid and
leaving the laptop overnight, for example.
How do I correct these, given that I cannot do a major upgrade as there is
only a slow internet connection here?
TIA
richard
$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory
Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075e (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor
(rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory
Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB
1.1 Controller+ (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB
2.0 Controller+ (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB
1.1 Controller+ (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB
2.0 Controller+ (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev
a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad0 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200]
Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express
Bridge (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 077a (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport
Configuratio+n (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous
Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0845 (rev a2)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI E+xpress Adapter (rev 01)
$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 325688 0·
snd_pcm_oss 32832 0·
snd_mixer_oss 12320 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 62596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2660 0·
snd_seq_oss 24992 0·
snd_seq_midi 5728 0·
snd_rawmidi 18528 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6432 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 41456 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_even+t
snd_timer 17800 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6380 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_s+eq
snd 45604 9
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_+oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6368 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
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