still a noob to debian so daren't do that yet as I don't want to get flamed but thank you for the suggestions :)
Dick Thomas On 19 September 2012 22:45, Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 >
