Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze
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From: Anand Sivaram on 12 May 2010 12:40 On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 19:40, Snood <snood(a)comcast.net> wrote: > On 05/12/2010 08:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: >> >> I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, >>> performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. >>> >>> I am, however, going to wait and install nouveau the easy way, once the >>> upgrade to xserver-xorg-core becomes available in the repository. If >>> this weren't my main system I might be tempted to experiment, but I just >>> need this thing to keep working. >>> >> >> >> People running non-stable (even squeeze) are going to run into problems >> now and then. It's an unavoidable certainty. nouveau is, well, new. >> There are going to be problems with it. >> > > Of course. But the problems I had with Gnome and Xfce on this system > occurred not only in Squeeze, but also when running an Ubuntu LTS version > and Debian Stable. I only saw those problems when using the restricted / glx > drivers. Never with nv or vesa. I think this is, perhaps, more a measure of > the card itself than the drivers. But I know a number of people with "high > end" graphics cards from nvidia who have reported the same sorts of issues > that I saw. It doesn't really matter much as these particular systems are no > longer used as graphics workstations. As they've aged we stuck Linux on them > and use them as admin workhorses, a job for which they are admirably suited > because of all of the screen real estate. > > > Regarding reliability of video drivers: Running many different things, >> hardware- and driver-wise, over time, I have learned that >> dpkg-reconfigure is your friend, especially >> >> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.32-5 >> >> which regenerates the initrd.img. (I needed this recently. Substitute >> the package name of your kernel.) Occasionally very helpful, that, when >> troubleshooting drivers. >> > > Yes. In my earlier experiences I would just wipe the drive and start over > when I suspected that hangovers from previous experiments with drivers were > getting in the way of new configurations. But after I became comfortable > with a few different methods of installation and initial configuration I > started paying attention to things like dpkg-reconfigure and debconf-show. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BEAB6C8.2070409(a)comcast.net > > I installed xserver-xorg-core-nouveau (1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-3) of squeze. My video card is an inbuilt one. 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) But after switching xorg.conf to use "nouveau", there was error saying that no video device found. Finally I followed. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau Compiled both drm and xf86-video-nouveau and replaced both libdrm and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so Now it is working fine. |