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 > > > -- > 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/87bokfgljj....@turtle.gmx.de > >