Re: Squeeze stable upgrade: "RANDR" missing on display
On Thu 10 Feb 2011 at 06:47:15 -0800, Erin Brinkley wrote:
> 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!
The tiny fonts can be altered with
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
and then
setupcon
I use the terminus 10x20.
XDM crashing could be a configuration issue. Try starting without it.
> 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?
Try moving xorg.conf out of the way. It isn't needed unless there is
something special you want to do. The nouveau driver should be detected.
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