Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

[Andrej Kacian <andrej+debian@kacian.sk>]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:38:01 +0200
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

>> I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver:
>>
>> [  1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>> [  1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
>> [  1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>> [  1528.924] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
>> [...]
>> [  1529.044] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
>> [  1529.044] (EE) No devices detected.
>>
>> It should work, though, GT200 series should be supported by nouveau.  
>
>Looks like Kernel Modesetting is disabled, either through a boot
>parameter or via a file in /etc/modprobe.d.  Try reloading the nouveau
>kernel module:
>
>rmmod nouveau
>nouveau modprobe modeset=1
>
>and restart X.

Thanks for the tip, but I already installed nvidia-glx from sid, and am now
happily using it. I wrote this little gem of knowledge down for the future,
though. :)

-- 
Andrej Kacian