Hello, sorry for not having responded earlier.
On 2012-10-09 03:30 +0200, The Eclectic One wrote: > Hello, > > Per this page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#How_do_I_backport_a_sid_package_to_testing_or_stable.3F > > I did the following: > > added > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > then: > apt-get update > apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (this got 35 packages) > apt-get -b source xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (to build the sid packages) > > This generated: > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_1.0.1-3_i386.deb and > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg_1.0.1-3_i386.deb > > dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg_1.0.1-3_i386.deb > installed it. I'm not sure why you did this, this version is already in testing. > After a reboot, after a kdm login, the display freezes before the 3d > icon is unfuzzied. > > Assuming this did install the sid nouveau driver, the problem is > still there and I don't know what else to try. How much memory do you have on your machine? If it's more than 2 Gigabyte, try booting with the "mem=2G" kernel parameter. > There's also this: > [ 18.285] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f > with some binary garbage in the log file below. This should be harmless. > I could use some hints... If the above boot parameter helps, read https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557. If not, try booting with nouveau.noaccel=1 to disable acceleration. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwyytwqi....@turtle.gmx.de
