On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Dick Thomas wrote: > Hello, Mike > > Sadly that didn't work still stopped displaying stuff at "populating /dev/" > but I can hear it loading in the background (sound card popping etc) > adding "nomodeset" does work but then I don't know if it still using nouveau > or not as gnome 3 failsafe loads
Try some of the troubleshooting steps? http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting Also, supposedly fixed in kernel 3.4, and I saw a note somewhere mentioning the commits needed, so if you're really adventurous, you could try to identify those and request the kernel team apply them to support your hardware. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org