Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:55:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400):
>
>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err404@free.fr wrote:
>
>>>what is your hadware?
>>>graphic card?
>>>and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc.
>
>> It's an eMachines desktop which was originally supplied with Windows
>> 7. I wiped Windows and loaded on Wheezy from a live DVD. The CPU is an
>> Athlon II x2 220 @ 800 MHz. The graphics (on the motherboard) is a
>> GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430 rev a2.
>
>This has been a problematic gfxchip for more than one user over the years.
>Try adding this to the kernel cmdline:
>
> nouveau.config=NvMSI=0
>
>I have a machine with the same gfxchip on its motherboard,
>https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/K9N6PGM2V.html
>but currently it doesn't have any Debian installed on it to check which if
>any releases are helped by it. It does have openSUSE 13.1 (kernel 3.12,
>server 1.14.3), 13.2 (kernel 3.16, server 1.16.1), 42.1 (kernel 4.1, server
>1.17.2) and Tumbleweed (kernel 4.7.4, server 1.18.4) installed. All four
>suffer random brief video corruption running X. Tumbleweed seems to have
>almost eliminated the corruption that is excessive and unacceptable in the
>others. IIRC, last Debian tried on it was Wheezy with Gnome or Mate or
>Cinnamon, and too much trouble or impossible at that time to actually use X.
>
>Something else to try is ensuring xserver-xorg-video-modesetting is
>installed, then purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and all traces of NVidia's
>proprietary driver bits. The modesetting driver has been getting quite some
>attention from the devs:
>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX
>
>The original owner of this motherboard suffered to the extent he installed a
>PCI gfxcard as a workaround when the motherboard was rather young. I got the
>motherboard free when when he bought a new one that I installed after its
>original RAM went bad.
>
Thanks Felix, I'll give it a try as soon as I can persuade my wife to
stay off the PC for a while, and report back. It will be a week or so
though, as I've got a couple of chapters of a book to deliver with a
deadline of next weekend.
Brian.
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