Jessie - running smoothly at last - nouveau driver
Yesterday, I was ready to quit my experience of Jessie (8.1) and return
to Wheezy (7.8). After a number of problems encountered and fixed, there
was only the video which would occasionally and irregularly crash the
system leaving a screen full of tearing. This never happened with
Wheezy. The only way out was reboot or power-off.
My system has on-board MCP61 nVidia with the ethernet using forcedeth
driver and the video (C61 [GeForce 7025/nForce 630a]) using nouveau
driver. The solution, probably not ideal but it works until an updated
nouveau, is to turn off hardware assisted acceleration.
So if anyone else has a similar system and similar problem, try creating
a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf file, containing:
options nouveau noaccel=1
Solution found in Debian bug 758460 (after much searching).
Bruce
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Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
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