Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (re

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:10:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>>There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rob Owens wrote: On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) I do have an onboard video port that

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:42:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory) /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/README.Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > That's bad indeed. > Embarassing goof:

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. Yeah, my

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not > > brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to > > sid, I would recommend

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:32:38 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. That leaves nv > or nvidia-173.14.27 (which is in Sid). > > Also, I recommend filing a bug against xserv

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 02:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-19 21:32 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. Uhm, nouveau has been supporting this card for years, the fact that it does not w

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-19 21:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:10:34 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to make nouveau work. >> >> There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not >> brave enough to blindly

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-19 21:32 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. Uhm, nouveau has been supporting this card for years, the fact that it does not work well for Rob notwithstanding. > Also,

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:10:34 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm trying to make nouveau work. > > There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not > brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to > sid

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 01:55 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:34:23 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: n

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > That's bad indeed. > > > lspci shows my

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > this message: > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon That's bad indeed. > lspci shows my video card as this: > > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForc

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:55:11PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:34:23 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > > > lspci shows my vi

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:34:23 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > this message: > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > lspci shows my video card as this: > > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeFor

nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) I do have an onboard video port that I'm not using. Not