I followed your instructions. The score is 3-7. X failed to start and
I had to reboot. Then it seemed to work nicely. I tried to suspend the
machine with no success and had to reboot. Then it failed to start
again, so I rebooted and it started nicely. Another reboot and it
failed... The pattern seems to be that when X starts a few thin colored
lines are displayed for a short time and then either the screen turns
black and soon afterwards the small 'waiting' rotating icon
appears. That means success. Otherwise, the screen becomes dark blue-gray
and a thin horizontal blinking-jumping line cursor appears at the left side of
the screen somewhat below the center. That means failure. It seems
that in this case many attempts are made, the disk seems to be quite
active and hundreds of logfiles are produced. Would you care to
receive any?
Best regards,
Luis
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:44:14PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> ...
> Yes. To start X with the nouveau driver:
>
> 1. Run "update-alternatives --config glx" and choose "mesa".
> (Both nvidia and nouveau should be able to cope with the mesa
> glx implementation.)
>
> 2. Install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
>
> 3. Move /etc/X11/xorg.conf temporarily out of the way.
>
> To restore your old settings, move /etc/X11/xorg.conf back into place
> and run "update-alternatives --config glx" again.
>
> [...]
> > Anyway, my problem (the laptop fails to shut off) seems to have been
> > solved with the last nvidia upgrade of debian/testing.
>
> Good to hear.
>
> > I still have some
> > other
> > problems like an occasional black screen after suspend/resume.
>
> I'd still be interested in seeing how well we can get nouveau to work.
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonathan
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