On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:48:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 18:25:03 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Now that xserver-xorg-video-vga has gone away, I'm unable to use the nv > > driver > > for this nv card as it is, apparently, unsupported. > > > I don't think vga has worked in years. Use vesa.
vga certainly did work up until today - vesa is installed but does not work (AFAICT vesa never worked on this laptop). Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-======================================-============================-============================================ ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.2.0-1 X.Org X server -- VESA display driver When using the packages from testing, the -vesa package did not provide a working Xorg, adding the -vga package did. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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