Bug#689748: More info, sid dbg package.
Hello,
sorry for not having responded earlier.
On 2012-10-09 03:30 +0200, The Eclectic One wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Per this page:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#How_do_I_backport_a_sid_package_to_testing_or_stable.3F
>
> I did the following:
>
> added
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> then:
> apt-get update
> apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (this got 35 packages)
> apt-get -b source xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (to build the sid packages)
>
> This generated:
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_1.0.1-3_i386.deb and
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg_1.0.1-3_i386.deb
>
> dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg_1.0.1-3_i386.deb
> installed it.
I'm not sure why you did this, this version is already in testing.
> After a reboot, after a kdm login, the display freezes before the 3d
> icon is unfuzzied.
>
> Assuming this did install the sid nouveau driver, the problem is
> still there and I don't know what else to try.
How much memory do you have on your machine? If it's more than
2 Gigabyte, try booting with the "mem=2G" kernel parameter.
> There's also this:
> [ 18.285] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
> with some binary garbage in the log file below.
This should be harmless.
> I could use some hints...
If the above boot parameter helps, read
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557. If not, try booting
with nouveau.noaccel=1 to disable acceleration.
Cheers,
Sven
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