On 18/02/11 20:11, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-02-18 20:22 +0100, Dom wrote:On 18/02/11 18:24, Camaleón wrote:To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either: a) KMS+nouveau b) nvidia propietary driver c) vesa/fb d) nv (obsolete but still available, AFAICT)d) is the only option that worked for one of my machines. It used to run the nvidia driver, but stopped working when I upgraded it to squeeze and it tried to use the nouveau driver.
My bad. I've checked that machine and remembered that I got nouveau to work once I'd removed all traces of the nvidia driver.
The problem I had didn't relate to the display at all. That bit worked. However the mythtv backend segfaulted on one of the nvidia libraries. I don't know why the backend would even be touching video related stuff.
It works fine with nouveau, and I'll stick with that.
I'll be upgrading that box to Wheezy soon and see if I can get it to work properly with nouveau then.To make it clear, upgrading to Wheezy will be uninteresting for quite some time, because it will have the same nouveau version as Squeeze for the next few months. If you want to test a newer version, you need to upgrade the X stack as well as the kernel to the sid versions.
Yes. I've been running the current testing on most of my systems for quite a few years now. In fact, since I found that the the only working video driver for my laptop (trident) was in lenny when lenny was testing.
I've since moved my mythtv box to Wheezy without problems, and I don't anticipate any major ones in future. However, I'm not daft and I do regular backups of all my systems.
Dom