Bug#578062: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: No VT with ctrl+alt+F{1, 2, 3, 4, ...}-displays only garbage
On 2010-04-16 15:13 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Severity: normal
>
> The 'garbage' I am referring to is letters and colours in random
> placement each time I reboot, so I lost my ability to switch to VT's
> in case something goes wrong with my X. Card is a NVidia GeForce (02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) ) - as reported by lspci.
This card should work fine, I have the same model…
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc4-00054-g2ba3abd (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
…but this kernel is not supported, see README.Debian. Do you even use
the nouveau X driver? Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Sven
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