Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-11-05 11:10 +0100, John Hughes wrote: > On 04/11/12 12:11, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Assuming that you still have the hardware: > > Aha, there's the rub - I fobbed it off on some other poor loser. >> How much memory does your system have? If it's more than 2 Gigabyte, >> try booting with

Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)

2012-11-05 Thread John Hughes
On 04/11/12 12:11, Sven Joachim wrote: Assuming that you still have the hardware: Aha, there's the rub - I fobbed it off on some other poor loser. How much memory does your system have? If it's more than 2 Gigabyte, try booting with the "mem=2G" kernel parameter. As far as I remember it ha

Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi John, coming back to an old problem of yours. Please read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608133 to refresh your memory. On 2011-03-09 10:48 +0100, John Hughes wrote: > A further piece of info. > > This bug only happens on 64 bit systems. If I install the 32 bit > (x86) ver

Bug#608133: Info received (Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521))

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
More info - the system is not dead, I can SSH into it. What syslog & dmesg show: Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492354] [drm] nouveau :00:05.0: Allocating FIFO number 1 Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492898] [drm] nouveau :00:05.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIF

Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
A further piece of info. This bug only happens on 64 bit systems. If I install the 32 bit (x86) version of Debian I get no problem. Will try changing kernel now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists