Bug#616604: xserver-xorg: [grave]X does not working for nvidia 3100M / Dell latitude e6510
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-03-05 23:58 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>
>> Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@gmail.com> (05/03/2011):
>>> Package: xserver-xorg
>>> Version: 1:7.5+8
>>> Severity: normal
>>
>>> While installing a new debian stable squeezy on brand new dell
>>> latitude E6510 which has nvidia 3100, the xserver is broken and not
>>> working. As soon as system boots, after grub, the screen becomes
>>> blank and you can only see "_ _ _ _ " passing by. Trying to switch
>>> to different terminal does not display anything. ctrl + alt +F4.
>>
>> I guess that installing the system worked fine, so fbdev was doing the
>> job. And the initial issue only happened on the first boot of the
>> freshly-installed system, using the nouveau driver, correct?
>>
>> What followed (installing nvidia to actually use vesa) is a bit
>> confusing, I'm putting Sven (maintainer of the nouveau — not nvidia —
>> driver) in copy since he might know better what failed after the
>> installation.
>
> My knowledge is rather limited, but from the "Macintosh mouse button
> emulation" lines in the original bug report I conclude that Lukasz has
> an Intel Mac.
I don't know where did you conclude that I have a mac intel, but I
assure you I have a Dell latitude e6510, as indicated on the subject
line.
There have been some upstream bug reports that Nouveau
> has trouble initializing the GPU on such machines, especially if BIOS
> emulation is disabled. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/29171 for such
> an example.
>
> Note that Lukasz' graphics card (nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]
> (rev a2)) also suffers from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/26980,
The 29171 bug talks about mac, I'm not familiar with mac hardware
configuration but this is no mac, so I'm not even sure how related
this could be.
26980 talks about "graphic card hand ups" my problem is not that it
hands, but it doesn't work at all. I'm pretty sure that nobody is
experiencing hand ups or that the graphic card will hand after this
problem is resolved. First we would need to fix this bug before we
start bringing any other possibly not related issues.
Is there any other debug information I can provide to speed up the
resolution of this problem?
Thank you,
Lucas
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