Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have you considered replacing the nvidia driver with nouveau?
Yes and no. I mean, I would have DEFINITELY wanted to go Nouveau had I known
what it was. I was using Lenny for a long time with the proprietary Nvidia
driver. Not happy AT ALL that it was proprietary, but the NV driver didn't work
with my hardware.
So then I upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze, and found out that my old driver was
removed and Nouveau was put in place. I probably wouldn't have cared (actually
have been HAPPY that I was 100% free software finally), but the problem was
that Nouveau didn't work! The framebuffer console had TINY fonts you had to
squint up to the monitor to see, and when XDM started it just crashed!
I thought Oh No and just got rid of Nouveau and downloaded the newest Nvidia
driver. (I also have to say that I'm surprised Debian was doing this. Shouldn't
it warn the user that it's taking out its X server video driver and replacing
with a completely different one??)
It works great, with the exception that RANDR does not work and every time I
start an app I get that horrible error:
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
So now after much web searching and not finding any possible solution, I am
willing to try getting Nouveau to work with my hardware. Is there a better
place I can go to try and get support for it? I know that when it was installed
by the upgrade, I just got a black screen in the F7 window. Should I try to
comment out the mode lines in my xorg.conf or is there a config utility I could
run? Also, since I used the Nvidia installer now I'm really unsure what I have
to remove (by hand) to "uninstall" the Nvidia driver. Or do I just install the
nouveau packages?
Thanks!
Erin
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