On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:47:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-03 21:45 +0200, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance > > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). > > > > $ lspci | grep VGA > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti > > 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) > > Please file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package. > done
> > The currently-installed Ubuntu 8.04 works fine. Lenny on a live usb > > works fine. Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 on live usb both show similar > > problems with the graphics. > > > > Some preliminary research suggested that booting with "nomodeset" might > > fix it. It made a difference, but didn't fix the problem. On Ubuntu > > 10.04, "nomodeset" fixed the display problems on the bootsplash, but not > > on GDM or the logged-in desktop. On Squeeze no difference was noted, > > but it doesn't use a boot splash. > > > > Any ideas how to fix this? > > Not really, but you can work around this. First, blacklist the nouveau > kernel module: > > # echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf > > Second, create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf with these lines: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Section "Device" > Identifier "n" > Driver "nv" > EndSection > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Worked great on Squeeze! Thanks. I'll report back after I've tried it on Ubuntu 10.04, but it might be a while. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100904002432.gb11...@aurora.owens.net
