Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop
On 2012-04-21 11:59 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:25 -0700, Potato Jim wrote:
>>
>> The suggestions on that page about blacklisting nouveau to disable KMS
>> did not work.
>
> What exactly did you try and what exactly did you get? Precision does
> matter.
It seems he tried to blacklist nouveau, but this does not actually help
if there is no xorg.conf. I have updated the Wiki accordingly.
>> However, I noticed that if I comment out the "blacklist nvidiafb" line
>> from /etc/modeprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf, X/Gnome does sort of work
>> again. I can see the contents of windows, but now the entire screen is
>> a little wavy and shimmery (for lack of a better description).
>
> You mean that blacklisting "nvidiafb" (nvidia framebuffer driver) helps?
No, *un*blacklisting helped. With nvidiafb loaded, nouveau will not
load, and X should use the fbdev driver then.
> As you're in Squeeze, there's a set of VGA drivers you can use:
>
> - Nouveau
> - NV
> - Nvidia legacy
Using one of the latter two is probably the best in Squeeze, but nv is
abandoned, and Nvidia has not published a 96xx legacy driver that works
with X servers > 1.10, neither of them will work after an upgrade to
Wheezy.
> But I'd like to see first the Xorg log :-)
Me too.
Cheers,
Sven
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