Bug#658546: Workarounds found
Am 06.05.2012 um 19:36 schrieb Jan Harnisch:
> 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
Disabling acceleration kills performance, so this is really the last
resort.
> 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.
Seems unlikely to me, your card seems to have 128 MB memory and Jeroen's
has even 256 if I read his report correctly.
> 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).
By default graphics drivers are not included in the initramfs, so that
should not be necessary.
Cheers,
Sven
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