Re: graphics problem on Squeeze w/ GeForce4
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:47:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-09-03 21:45 +0200, Rob Owens wrote:
>
> > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance
> > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer).
> >
> > $ lspci | grep VGA
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti
> > 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)
>
> Please file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.
>
done
> > The currently-installed Ubuntu 8.04 works fine. Lenny on a live usb
> > works fine. Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 on live usb both show similar
> > problems with the graphics.
> >
> > Some preliminary research suggested that booting with "nomodeset" might
> > fix it. It made a difference, but didn't fix the problem. On Ubuntu
> > 10.04, "nomodeset" fixed the display problems on the bootsplash, but not
> > on GDM or the logged-in desktop. On Squeeze no difference was noted,
> > but it doesn't use a boot splash.
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Not really, but you can work around this. First, blacklist the nouveau
> kernel module:
>
> # echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
>
> Second, create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf with these lines:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "n"
> Driver "nv"
> EndSection
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
Worked great on Squeeze! Thanks. I'll report back after I've tried it
on Ubuntu 10.04, but it might be a while.
-Rob
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