Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Stephen Powell > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv > > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 16:39:55 -0400 (EDT) > > > > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:56:34 -0400 (EDT), P

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:56:34 -0400 (EDT), Paul Scott wrote: > > or that read-edid is broken? ddcprobe seems to provide correct > information for my ViewSonic VA703b. read-edid does not. By the way, have you noticed that nv (xserver-xorg-video-nv) has been dropped from Wheezy (testing) now? I'

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 04/02/2011 03:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working an

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 04:17 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] But it's good to know that cheap video cards are available. And monitors. Acer 17" 4:3 LCD for $97 w/ free shipping. (But obviously that's 3x as expensive as the video card.) -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will se

re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:16:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > > Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2. > > NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce 5200 for $30 and GeForce 6200 for $35, and > they might be even cheaper on eBay. I replace hardware when it no longer meets my nee

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-02 22:16 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > [snip] >> >> My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by >> the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, > > Time to accept the reality that time has p

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2. NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce 5200

getting nouveau to work on my PC (was Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Fumiaki Okushi
On 4/2/11 3:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working and fai

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:49:39 -0400 (EDT), Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > > I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. > I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working > and failed. > ... I see you already found a solution from other posters. But be glad that you had an nv driver to go ba

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: >> >>> I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. >>> I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working >>> and failed. >> >> I'm sorry that

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Fumiaki Okushi
On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working and failed. I'm sorry that nouveau did not work for you. Could you please elaborate what the

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Fumiaki Okushi
On 04/02/2011 12:34 AM, Kent West wrote: On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I rebooted, but X won't work. Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dependent drivers (eg., drm_kms_heler.k

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Apr 2011 at 09:43:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Blacklist the nouveau module or boot with nouveau.modeset=0. See > http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting. Having GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0" in /etc/default/grub saves some typing at every boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-02 09:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Better also check wether nouveau did blacklist the nv kernel module... There is no nv kernel module, and nouveau does not blacklist anything. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. > I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working > and failed. I'm sorry that nouveau did not work for you. Could you please elaborate what the problem was? > I purged the two packages I

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Erwan David
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:34:10AM CEST, Kent West said: > On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > > I rebooted, but X won't work. > > Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: > > > > (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load > > > > Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dep

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Kent West
On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > I rebooted, but X won't work. > Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: > > (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load > > Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dependent drivers (eg., drm_kms_heler.ko) > are still getting loaded. > > W

cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-01 Thread Fumiaki Okushi
Hi, I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working and failed. I purged the two packages I had to install to attempt nouveau: - xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - libdrm-nouveau1 and restored /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the one I was using with nv.