Re: Reinstall nouveau driver
On 2013-05-31 20:13 +0200, Joe Riel wrote:
> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It
> didn't work (X didn't come up).
Using the Nvidia installer is not recommended, better use the packages
in non-free.
> I managed to revert to using the
> nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works.
> However, I'm having an issue rendering some 3D stuff that used to work
> before the upgrade (I'm pretty sure I was using the nouveau driver with
> Squeeze).
The nouveau driver in Squeeze does not provide 3D acceleration, so that
kind of stuff only works to a limited amount (by using the swrast
software renderer).
> Do I need to reinstall/reconfigure the nouveau driver? What
> is the proper way to do so?
Reinstall the xserver-xorg-core and libgl1-mesa-glx packages, those
contain files which are overwritten by the Nvidia installer.
Cheers,
Sven
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