Re: Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-02 Thread Jean Pierre
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Re: Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-02 Thread Jean Pierre
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Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-02 Thread jds1307
The NVIDIA proprietary driver blacklists the nouveau driver by creating a file in /etc/modprobe.d IIRC the file name is nouveau.conf, but I could be wrong there. If you want to revert to using nouveau you will have to: (i) remove that file (ii) run sudo depmod -a (iii) rebuild initramfs by runn

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > My /etc/default/grub file contained > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet vga=775" > > should I remove the vga=775 when adding > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep Yes! I've been trying different settings and rebooting and

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 > > Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> Alan Ianson writes: > >> > >> > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 > >> > Joe Riel wrote: > >> > > >> >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to i

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:26:08AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote: > > My /etc/default/grub file contained > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet vga=775" > > should I remove the vga=775 when adding > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep I'd say yes, to avoid conflicts, but you could *act

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-01 Thread Joe Riel
Alan Ianson writes: > On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 > Joe Riel wrote: > >> Alan Ianson writes: >> >> > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 >> > Joe Riel wrote: >> > >> >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. >> >> It didn't work (X didn't come up). I manage

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 > > Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. > >> It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using > >> the nouv

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 31 mai 13, 12:59:49, Joe Riel wrote: > > Only thing I've noticed that is obviously worse is that the virtual > terminal font is now big and ugly. I recall that the same occured when > I previously tried an nvidia driver in Squeeze. Put something like this in /etc/default/grub and run 'upd

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:49:36 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: Hello Joe, >I tried that, didn't help. Well, I tried dpkg-reconfigure; that >didn't help. Try installing nvidia-installer-cleanup, which ensures any remnants of the packages installed from the nVidia website are removed, and therefore, cannot

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 21:49 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Reinstall the xserver-xorg-core and libgl1-mesa-glx packages, those >> contain files which are overwritten by the Nvidia installer. > > I tried that, didn't help. Well, I tried dpkg-reconfigure; that > didn't help. Of course

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Joe Riel
Alan Ianson writes: > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 > Joe Riel wrote: > >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. >> It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using the >> nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works. >> Ho

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Joe Riel
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2013-05-31 20:13 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: > >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It >> didn't work (X didn't come up). > > Using the Nvidia installer is not recommended, better use the packages > in non-free. > >> I managed to revert to u

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. > It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using the > nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works. > However, I'm having an issue rend

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 20:13 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: > After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It > didn't work (X didn't come up). Using the Nvidia installer is not recommended, better use the packages in non-free. > I managed to revert to using the > nouveau driver, by remov

Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Joe Riel
After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using the nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works. However, I'm having an issue rendering some 3D stuff that used to work before the upgrade (I'