That does not work neither unfortunately. I installed the proprietary driver and now X crashes. At least the whole machine does not crash, but I can open a Desktop, KDE or Gnome, then open an app, maximize the window and I get a prompt crash. At least that one will be a little easier to troubleshoot as I can get the logs easier.
The unability to get logs in the Kernel Panic is a huge problem, I can't believe that this his still not solved, that there is no automatic mechanism, to at least see what caused the panic or, for the matter, logging that ANY panic has occurred. Right now, the most serious of errors does not have any accounting whatsoever. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 07:14:26PM -0800, Nigra Truo wrote: > > I tried Kernel 4.2 from backports, no dice, thing still crashes. > > Not surprising, the big overhaul was in 4.3. > > I've just switched to nouveau on 4.3, no crash for me yet; it's been only > two hours of light activity though so it's not conclusive. And my crash > looks different from yours save for the symptoms... > > > How do I get the new version of nouveau? Backports does not seem to > offer > > any newer version. > > For 4.3 you need to install it from experimental, as it'd be some time > until > it reaches backports. It's safe to add experimental to your apt sources as > packages are not installed automatically (except exp->exp upgrades). It > appears that the experimental kernel has no dependencies that are > unsatisfiable in stable, so it can be installed by just "apt-get install > linux-image-4.3.0-trunk-amd64". > > > I could compile nouveau from scratch, but it seems to be very complicated > > and hairy. > > As there's a ready Debian kernel in experimental, there's no need. > > > I might also go away from nouveau and use the proprietary drivers again. > Do > > you know a manual how to easily install them on Debian Jessie? I remember > > the process very painful from before, not knowing which version to take > and > > the machine staying without X for a while, while X failed to start till I > > could fix it. > > You need to have kernel headers for your kernel version installed. > > apt-get install nvidia-driver > > The third step is writing a /etc/X11/xorg.conf that contains at least: > Section "Device" > Identifier "anything" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > -- > A tit a day keeps the vet away. > -- *Por sperto kaj lerno ne sufiĉas eterno.*
