Hi,
That's really odd about the kernel. The computer was working fine on an old
CRT via VGA, and I just plugged my new flat screen in via dvi-d, and you
can see start up, but X doesn't start.

I'm upgrading to the 2.6.32-686 kernel, will that be new enough?
Thanks
James

On 19 June 2012 20:16, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2012-06-19 01:19 +0200, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 23:21:03 +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> >
> >> [drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau"
> >> (EE) [drm] failed to open device
> >
> >    http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
> >
> > and also look at what is happening with nouveau in the output of the
> > 'dmesg' command.
>
> That question is easy to answer, the nouveau module does not exist
> because James is running an obsolete 2.6.30 kernel.  Upgrading to the
> Squeeze kernel should rectify this.
>
> Cheers,
>       Sven
>
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