Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)
- To: John Hughes <john@Calva.COM>
- Cc: 608133@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)
- From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:11:28 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87a9uxwrkv.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
- Reply-to: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, 608133@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <4D774CE3.3030802@Calva.COM> (John Hughes's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:48:19 +0100")
- References: <20101227184154.1368.54041.reportbug@salon.Colmar.AtlanTech.COM> <handler.608133.B.12934753249319.ack@bugs.debian.org> <4D774CE3.3030802@Calva.COM>
Hi John,
coming back to an old problem of yours. Please read
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608133 to refresh your
memory.
On 2011-03-09 10:48 +0100, John Hughes wrote:
> A further piece of info.
>
> This bug only happens on 64 bit systems. If I install the 32 bit
> (x86) version of Debian I get no problem.
Assuming that you still have the hardware:
How much memory does your system have? If it's more than 2 Gigabyte,
try booting with the "mem=2G" kernel parameter.
See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557 for more
information on that topic.
Cheers,
Sven
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