On Thu 10 Feb 2011 at 06:47:15 -0800, Erin Brinkley wrote: > 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!
The tiny fonts can be altered with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and then setupcon I use the terminus 10x20. XDM crashing could be a configuration issue. Try starting without it. > 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? Try moving xorg.conf out of the way. It isn't needed unless there is something special you want to do. The nouveau driver should be detected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110210195306.GW32679@desktop
