Re: Squeeze stable upgrade: "RANDR" missing on display
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> Have you considered replacing the nvidia driver with nouveau?
Yes and no. I mean, I would have DEFINITELY wanted to go Nouveau had I known what it was. I was using Lenny for a long time with the proprietary Nvidia driver. Not happy AT ALL that it was proprietary, but the NV driver didn't work with my hardware.
So then I upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze, and found out that my old driver was removed and Nouveau was put in place. I probably wouldn't have cared (actually have been HAPPY that I was 100% free software finally), but the problem was that Nouveau didn't work! The framebuffer console had TINY fonts you had to squint up to the monitor to see, and when XDM started it just crashed!
I thought Oh No and just got rid of Nouveau and downloaded the newest Nvidia driver. (I also have to say that I'm surprised Debian was doing this. Shouldn't it warn the user that it's taking out its X server video driver and replacing with a completely different one??)
It works great, with the exception that RANDR does not work and every time I start an app I get that horrible error:
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
So now after much web searching and not finding any possible solution, I am willing to try getting Nouveau to work with my hardware. Is there a better place I can go to try and get support for it? I know that when it was installed by the upgrade, I just got a black screen in the F7 window. Should I try to comment out the mode lines in my xorg.conf or is there a config utility I could run? Also, since I used the Nvidia installer now I'm really unsure what I have to remove (by hand) to "uninstall" the Nvidia driver. Or do I just install the nouveau packages?
Thanks!
Erin
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