Bug#616604: xserver-xorg: [grave]X does not working for nvidia 3100M / Dell latitude e6510

[Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@gmail.com> (05/03/2011):
>> I'm not sure which driver was installed during original
>> installation, but it seems as during the installation the xorg.conf
>> was not created and therefore X not working.
>
> if you picked the desktop task, you probably got the
> xserver-xorg-{input,video}-all packages installed, pulling all
> drivers. X works without any configuration in almost all cases now, so
> having no xorg.conf is not an actual issue, and should not lead to
> such issues.


Correct,
I've just renamed the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.org and restarted. The X
started and and with only 800x600 mode, I was able to see X and login,
etc...


>
>> I could probably do a dpkg-reconfigure style commands to see what
>> actually fails if you can't figure it out from the logs I've
>> attached.  I've provided the xorg.0.log and xorg.0.log.old so
>> hopefully that has some info on it.
>
> That doesn't exactly tell us what happened before you tried the
> nvidia/vesa dance. That vesa doesn't work is “normal”, since it
> detects Kernel ModeSetting (KMS). Not sure how to disable it for
> nouveau, but you could try replacing vesa with “fbdev” in your
> xorg.conf for now (and make sure xserver-xorg-video-fbdev is
> installed).
>

i A xserver-xorg-video-fbdev

I restared the xorg.conf, and replaced the driver to "fbdev", restart,
I get the same issue. Right after grub, the whole screen has only:

 blinking:
_


If I keep pressing ctrl + alt + F4 I can see the login screen for
about 0.5sec and it goes back to "_"


So what now? Are you saying that fbdev is a default driver right after
installation?

Thanks,
Lucas