On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:20:37AM EST, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 14. 01. 2011 09:24:32 je Chris Jones napisal(a):
[..] >> On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the >> default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream >> TV news channels or play .flv videos. > It may be that the nv driver you use is simply slower than the > proprietary nvidia driver. At first glance, does not account for the fact that I do see some crappy video with other mplayer -vo's such as ‘sdl’ or ‘x11’. > See http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation-1 for > installing the proprietary nvidia driver from the Debian repositories. >> Hoping that this might be a simple case of debian ’lenny’ being too old >> for my hardware and that I only needed to be patient and the problem >> would take care of itself, I proceeded to boot into debian ‘squeeze’, >> but unfortunately, I got the exact same results as on lenny: no video >> with ‘xv’, very choppy sound with ‘sdl’, and xvinfo outputs the same >> three messages as above. > > Unless you have very specific needs, Squeeze is the way to go on a laptop > machine. Since it will happen any time soon, I decided it made more sense to wait till squeeze becomes stable.. > A more recent kernel, more hardware is supported, ext4 filesystem, > and so on. There is really no reason to stick with Lenny in your case > as far as I can see (but the decision is yours, of course). I have an up-to-date squeeze environment ready to roll.. but I'm having the exact same problem with it.. Looks like regardless of the version, ‘nv’ doesn't play well with my video card. >> I am not really keen on installing the ‘nvidia’ driver on the debian >> systems, > You can say that again. I ran a quick test about a month ago with the proprietary driver, plus patched kernel.. etc. and I what I saw was that hardware rendering worked fine. But the linux console was non functional. Let me login, type startx, etc. but all I could see was a black screen. Impractical for normal utilization.. This problem is fixed with the newer version of the ‘nvidia’ driver that comes with ubuntu 10.10. Ibid. squeeze, presumably. >> but on the other hand, it would be nice to be able to take a quick >> look at the news and such without having to reboot.. >> >> Is this situation to be expected, or is there any way I could get >> this to work? > I'm afraid it's the former. Freedom never comes cheap (i.e. without > sacrifice). I'll give the ‘nouveau’ driver a run for its money when I'm done switching to squeeze. cj -- 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/20110114175521.GC4143@pavo.local
