> You are going away, You want to see something on the screen of your > laptop. At the moment you have nothing visible and you think the nvidia > proprietry diver is playing up. It's an emergency. You don't have time > to be upgrading, downgrading or investigating what may be wrong. > > Why not use the nouveau driver? It should be on your system. Does > nouveau support the adapter? Purge nvidia things from the system. Move > xorg.conf out of the way and reboot.
It might be, the nouveau driver might be the problem. I had had the same problem with a Nvidia 8400M (on my notebook). the solution was, to delete the nouveau driver from the kernel. Yes, you read correctly: delete! Just blacklisting did not solve the problem. Another problem appeared (which was my fault), with a self built kernel. When I remember correctly, I forgot either to build in the vesa module into the initrd or to built it directly into the kernel itself. However, this never happened with a stock kernel, of course. With any stock kernel, the problem with older nvidia cards was mostly an incompaility version with nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, or an interference with the nouveau driver. Another solution can also be, to choose the "nv" driver in /etx/X11/xorg.conf or /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf. Yes, I know, the newer xserver-xorg does not need one, but if one exists, it will be used. You can create one for testing purposes. There are examples in the web. Good luck! Hans -- 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/201112112318.18953.hans.ullr...@loop.de
