On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 07:51:30, Jack Chastain wrote: > On Mar 12, 2013 5:09 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:31:10, Jack Chastain wrote: > > > On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]>
[...] > > The "vesa" driver is the best temporary fallback for Nvidia cards. > > The other thing you might try is the 'nouveau' driver. [The > > nouveau driver is known to (mostly) work for the GeForce FX 5200.] > > How do I get this in? apt=get some nouveau package? Still a little > clueless, but getting pretty good at wielding a sledgehammer at least. On Debian I installed 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau' and also made sure that the kernel was built with the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=m (module) option. [You can check this via 'fgrep -i nouveau /boot/config-$(uname -r)'] I don't know if Ubuntu 12 has the nouveau module necessary, so that's how to check. > > > Based on items in this post, I ran some apt-get commands and tried > > > rebuilding the nvidia bits: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966987&s=95929aea85597fa1c695bd63 > > > 7b000941&page=2 > > > > Since there's 10 posts in that page, I can't tell what you followed. > > Heh - yeah - I am doing most of my web reading on the tablet (tf700) so > sometimes can't really tell how much is where - but I tried most of pretty > much any suggestion on the first two pages there at least. Mostly the > purging and re-getting packages stuff. Still pretty clueless on this stuff. > Maybe I should just put Solaris on (*ducks*) Out of curiosity, is kind of thing easier on Solaris? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
