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 back to. The nv driver has already been deleted from sid (except for the avr32 and m68k unofficial ports). I too had to go back to nv. My monitor requires an interlaced video mode, and the last time I checked, the nouveau driver simply wouldn't work with interlaced modes. It gives no error messages, but the screen goes totally black. If they had demoted the driver from main to non-free, (due to DFSG violations -- code obfuscation), I could have accepted that. But with this monitor, I don't think any other driver will work at 1024x768 resolution. (The monitor does have a non-interlaced mode for 1024x768 resolution at 60 Hz vertical refresh, but that produces unacceptable flicker which gives me horrible headaches after several hours of use. Non-interlaced modes for this resolution at higher vertical refresh rates are not possible due to the monitor's low video bandwidth. It's an IBM G51 monitor, and it has a 70 MHz maximum pixel clock rate.) My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, but this driver doesn't work with the release of the X server used by Squeeze and later releases.) Without the nv driver, I would have to drop back to 800x600 resolution to save my eyes. Plus I would lose my true hardware-mode text consoles and be stuck with framebuffer stuff. With the nv driver, not only can I use the VESA standard 87 Hz vertical refresh interlaced mode (half frame rate), but I designed my own video mode that runs it at 100 Hz vertical refresh interlaced (half frame rate), which is the maximum vertical refresh rate supported by the monitor. This is even easier on my eyes than 87 Hz interlaced. I really wish they would bring back the nv driver as non-free. It has a "niche market" that cannot be filled by any other driver, as in my example. If nouveau is not going to support interlaced modes, then people who use monitors that require interlaced modes and video chipsets that support interlaced modes but are not supported by the nvidia proprietary driver really don't have any good alternative except nv. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/646940273.1896062.1301766268843.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com