Re: Reinstall nouveau driver
Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700
> Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver.
>> It didn't work (X didn't come up). 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). Do I need to reinstall/reconfigure the nouveau
>> driver? What is the proper way to do so?
>
> Did you use nvidia-xconfig to create your xorg.conf? The debian
> packaged nvidia driver works well for me.
When I first upgraded to Wheezy, I believe that is what I did (used
nvidia-xconfig to create xorg.conf) and was unable to start X. This
time, after installing an nvidia driver using
sudo aptitude -s install nvidia-kernel-dkms install linux-headers-amd64
I manually created /etc/xorg.conf.d using the directions at
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers.
All went well. After a reboot, X started, the 3D stuff is working,
scrolling in chrome is a lot faster. Fonts have changed slightly, it
seems. I wouldn't say for the better but I'll adapt soon enough.
Only thing I've noticed that is obviously worse is that the virtual
terminal font is now big and ugly. I recall that the same occured when
I previously tried an nvidia driver in Squeeze.
--
Joe Riel
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