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Re: Display Resolution



On 2012-08-03 00:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Jo, 02 aug 12, 16:54:41, Nelson Green wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply. I can't believe I didn't think to look for a log 
>> file related to this. And no, there is no xorg.conf, just the 
>> Xorg.0.log file. It is quite large, but here it is. I see some 
>> interesting lines about the display in it. Am I missing a driver?
>
> For some reason your cards run with the vesa driver instead of nouveau. 
> Maybe nouveau doesn't support your cards?

The nouveau version in squeeze does not support these cards, they should
work in wheezy though.

> I'm reluctant to suggest this, 
> but you probably need the nvidia driver (package nvidia-glx in section 
> non-free) to get full support for your cards.

Let's hope that security is not Nelson's main concern then¹.

Cheers,
       Sven


¹ http://lwn.net/Articles/509131/


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