On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:57:05 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > Thanks for your advice! > > Camaleón wrote: >> Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right? > > Yes, NV for now.
Don't forget to give "nouveau" a whirl from a livecd media, it will be your better option in the future if you want expand the life of your old laptop :-) > I realized that I now have one new issue, though not as bothersome as > the original. When I CTRL+ALT+F* into a terminal window, or during the > start-up/shut-down messages (when X is not running), the screen appears > very dim, and has vertical lines that roll across it. Is there anything > obvious that I can do to fix this? Hard to say... being your card quite old (for today "standards", I mean) and the "nv" driver not maintained anymore, I bet there are not many documents out there you review :-(. You can try to set/tweak/play with whatever available options provides the nv driver that can be found in "man nv". > This does not happen when I boot into Recovery Mode -- only when I boot > normally. Maybe because the recovery mode will boot with vesa/fb VGA driver instead nv (you can see check this point by reviewing your "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", the driver in use is logged there) but that's a low level graphic driver used mostly as "fallback" when nothing more works but not convenient (meaning: less configurable, less options, less capable) if you are using a graphical environment. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jn3q5r$68l$2...@dough.gmane.org
