Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe
David Baron composed on 2016-10-09 13:17 (UTC+0300):
> These packages upgraded (though they seem no longer on Debian!). The upgrades
> would not play with opengl2 so plasma would no longer run. Downgrading to
> testing, due to partial removal from the repos, proved impossible. No more
> means to file bugs, either!
> So I uninstalled them, went back to Nouveaux (which I might even prefer).
> Plasmashell is unstable, crashes and restarts, and multiple session will not
> work. Could live the a single-session if that be stable.
> There had been problems with firefox in nouveaux last year.
> What to do about all this?
Show us output from 'lspci | grep VGA'
If output includes 6150SE, try adding nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 to
kernel cmdline.
Show us output from 'inxi -Fz'
Show us /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Ensure all traces of NVidia driver are purged, including
/etc/X11/xorg.conf which for most people with most gfxchips using
FOSS drivers has not been necessary for several Debian generations.
With proprietary NVidia driver never having been installed, lsmod
output should resemble the following with legacy geforce gfxcard:
button 12944 1 nouveau
drm 249998 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 49210 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 12751 1 nouveau
i2c_core 46012 5 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau
mxm_wmi 12515 1 nouveau
nouveau 1122508 2
ttm 77862 1 nouveau
video 18096 1 nouveau
wmi 17339 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
Ensure kernel cmdline does not include nomodeset.
Ensure nothing to do with nouveau is blacklisted.
If a thorough nvidia purge is insufficient, you might try purging
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. In Debian Testing and Unstable, this
should cause use of Xorg's built-in modesetting driver. See:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX
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