Thanks for your advice!
Camaleón wrote:
> Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right?
Yes, NV for now.
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
SOLVED.
In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having updated the
wiki. I have now looked at the updated wiki and the suggested new xorg.conf
file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm now using the NV driver. More
precisely, I blacklisted nouveau in a blacklist-nouveau.c
I first tried blacklisting nouveau by issuing the following command:
echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
...this was per the instructions
here: http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Disabling_KMS
Next, I did as Sven guessed and un-blacklisted nvidiafb by commenting
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-)
> I installed Deb 6.0.
Hi Everyone,
I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything seemed
to go well, except... I'll try to describe a problem I'm experiencing,
evidently with X: The windows are all blank. Even at the login screen, I
can't see the "username,other" selection list -- just a
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