On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core > to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet > there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices > found when usign nouveau driver as prior to the update. However using > fbdev instead worked out. > > I'm wondering if this is just because the nouveau driver is buggy (it > comes from experimental after all), or because it's been deprecated in > favor of fbdev. Actually fbdev driver is detecting nouveaufb: > > [ 15133.442] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: nouveaufb (video memory: 9000kB) > > So perhaps that's the way of noveau now, though if so, it's confusing > the driver nouveau is still avialable. Perhaps just a bug on the new > driver, :-)
You need to upgrade your kernel as well, see the NEWS.Debian that comes with nouveau. Install the apt-listchanges package if you want to be informed about important changes in packages. Sven -- 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/87k4hb7lmw....@turtle.gmx.de
