On 2010-03-16 09:46, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote:
Another possibility
is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which
is newer and *might* support your chipset.
Or the (what's that hissing noise coming from Boston?) nvidia binary
driver. Lots of people hate it, it's not perfect (but darn it if
there's not a single non-trivial perfect FLOSS system out there
either!), and they regularly drop support for older chips, but where
the rubber hits the road, it works [...] better than the nv driver.
Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's
great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or
the kernel.
That's the beauty of compiling my own kernel from
linux-source-2.6.xx and installing nvidia from upstream: for months
on end, I've got a stable kernel and video.
Using Sid does mean, though, that occasionally I must go into
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions and mv the xserver-xorg-core
libglx.so out of the way (usually to "libglx.so.software") and then
symlink nvidia's libglx.so.XXX.YY to libglx.so. That, too, is rare,
and only a little bit of manual intervention.
Best of all, when it *does* break, you can always go back to nv
until it's fixed. Woo hoo! Ain't choice great!
Except in this case, nv doesn't work. He would have to fall back
to VESA, which is not only slower, but does not support his monitor's
full resolution.
Suffering is good for the soul!
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