On 17/06/10 07:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote:
Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being
ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module
"nouveau" by default seizes control of the graphics card which
prevents the nVidia driver from loading.
If you had installed the Nvidia driver the Debian way, this would not
have happened, because the nvidia-kernel-common package blacklists the
nouveau module which is the recommended way to prevent it from loading.
See modprobe.conf(5).
Sven
I have always experienced very mixed success installing the driver the
Debian way - which is why I now resort to using the proprietary driver.
Admittedly, this may be due to my own (quite profound) ignorance, but
even when following step-by-step docs, the Debian way just doesn't seem
to work. Googleearth complains and won't work, screen resolution goes
to hell, and a number of associated issues plague me pursuing that route.
But that is good to know that nouveau gets blacklisted automatically
using that method. I wonder why it has been included in the vanilla
kernel in the first place - it certainly was a nasty surprise!
Anyway, FWIW, the method I described is a successful work around for
those not using the Debian way.
AG
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