Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-09 Thread Erwan David
On 08/07/11 22:55, lee wrote: David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: I have version 275.09.07 in wheezy running fine - although I think I did have to remove some mesa-related packages that broke things on an update a few days ago. You mean libgl1-mesa-glx? There are 1716 packages

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: I have nvidia GeForce 7300GT video card. I did not find xorg.conf in /etc/X11 But when it starts gui, I get first hazy stripes. Further I get panels half black. Any solutions? 1. Before you downgrade, try

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 iul 11, 10:30:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I didn't run into dependency hell, anything else is from testing. I really wonder hat people claim to get issues regarding to dependencies, when downgrading X. We're still almost one year away from the freeze, I'm guessing many changes are

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 09 iul 11, 10:30:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I didn't run into dependency hell, anything else is from testing. I really wonder hat people claim to get issues regarding to dependencies, when downgrading X. We're still almost

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-09 Thread lee
David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:55:00PM +0200, lee wrote: David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: I have version 275.09.07 in wheezy running fine - although I think I did have to remove some mesa-related packages that broke things on an update a few

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
bri...@aracnet.com writes: it's the strangest thing though, Xorg -configure still fails. It simply generates the xorg.conf which is practically useless and un-used (on your and my systems); so why bother?? -- Mahesh T. Pai || Encryption: A powerful algorithmic encoding

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread L V Gandhi
I am also having nvidia card. Should I delete xorg.conf for good performance. I am having discoloured task bar. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: First problem I found - still had an nvidia

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:26:15 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: (...) Have you tried running it without a config file? Why are you running X as root? I

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:39:26 +0530 Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mahesh, It simply generates the xorg.conf which is practically useless and un-used (on your and my systems); so why bother?? Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver rather than nouveau? -- Regards

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-08 11:15 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:39:26 +0530 Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: It simply generates the xorg.conf which is practically useless and un-used (on your and my systems); so why bother?? Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread mark
On Friday 08 July 2011 12:38:23 am bri...@aracnet.com wrote: howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried googling on that error symbol and literally got nothing back. Hi, What

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:34:19 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Hello Sven, True, but you don't need configuration programs to create one. The following four lines will do: Well, yes. Of course, you don't actually *need* a config tool to create extremely complex configs. It just

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk writes: Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver rather than nouveau? If I got the message to which I was responding right, the problem was solved by removing xorg.conf. I was responding to (what seemed to me) an aside comment about the configuration

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread briand
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:04:08 -0400 mark m...@neidorff.com wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 12:38:23 am bri...@aracnet.com wrote: howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/07/11 at 09:58pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: First problem I found - still had an nvidia modules installed, and didn't realize it. so I purged nvidia* and rebooted. I saw it reported you were using an

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:14:12 +0530 Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mahesh, If I got the message to which I was responding right, the problem was solved by removing xorg.conf. I was responding to (what seemed to me) That's right, but the OP would ultimately prefer to use the

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Brad Rogers Subject: Re: help ! nvidia driver and X Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:39:47 +0100 As did I recently; nVidia is b0rked in testing, ATM. :-( No it isn't, here 173.14.30-1 is ok with kernel 2.6.39-2-amd64 from the repositories and a self

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:44:26 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hello Ralf, No it isn't, here 173.14.30-1 is ok with kernel 2.6.39-2-amd64 from the Okay, I'll qualify my statement; 275.* nvidia drivers are currently broken in testing. repositories and a self build 2.6.39

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 19:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Forwarded Message From: Brad Rogers Subject: Re: help ! nvidia driver and X Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:39:47 +0100 As did I recently; nVidia is b0rked in testing, ATM. :-( No it isn't, here 173.14.30-1

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:44:26 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hello Ralf, No it isn't, here 173.14.30-1 is ok with kernel 2.6.39-2-amd64 from the Okay, I'll qualify my statement; 275.* nvidia drivers are

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread lee
David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: I have version 275.09.07 in wheezy running fine - although I think I did have to remove some mesa-related packages that broke things on an update a few days ago. You mean libgl1-mesa-glx? There are 1716 packages depending on that, and I have too many

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:55:00PM +0200, lee wrote: David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: I have version 275.09.07 in wheezy running fine - although I think I did have to remove some mesa-related packages that broke things on an update a few days ago. You mean libgl1-mesa-glx?

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: David Jardine da...@jardine.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: help ! nvidia driver and X Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 00:03:11 +0200 On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:55:00PM +0200, lee wrote: David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread L V Gandhi
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk writes: Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver rather than nouveau? If I got the message to which I was responding right, the problem was solved by removing xorg.conf. I was

help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-07 Thread briand
howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried googling on that error symbol and literally got nothing back. Here's the lspci entry: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/07/11 at 09:38pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried googling on that error symbol and literally got nothing back. Here's the lspci

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-07 Thread briand
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: First problem I found - still had an nvidia modules installed, and didn't realize it. so I purged nvidia* and rebooted. Have you tried running it without a config file? Why are you running X as root? I was