Re: Reinstall nouveau driver
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
I tried that, didn't help. Well, I tried dpkg-reconfigure; that
didn't help.
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Joe Riel
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