Bug#658546: Workarounds found

[Jan Harnisch <jan.willi@bnhof.de>]

Hello again,

in the meantime I have received a mail with two possible workarounds 
(thanks Jeroen Diederen!). He wrote:

--snip

I found a solution for myself, thanks to someone on my forum on
mintppc.org. I can now use nouveau normally, to do this there are two
ways, of which the second one is permanent of course:

1. via a kernel command line (I guess you use Grub, you have to add it
with "e" (edit) and add:
nouveau.noaccel=1

or

2. Edit (nano) /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf to include:
options nouveau noaccel=1

--snip

I might add that in Jeroens' case the problem occurred although he uses 
only one single monitor, however with a higher number of pixels. So 
maybe the problem is somehow related to a limited amount of graphics memory.
In the meantime I have successfully tried both methods. For method 2. 
the file /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf did not yet exist and had to be 
created. I also ran update-initramfs -u to put the option into the 
initrd (didn´t test whether it also works without that, though).

Best regards

Jan