On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:55:11PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:34:23 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > > > lspci shows my video card as this: > > > > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev > > a1) > > > > I do have an onboard video port that I'm not using. Not sure if that's > > messing things up or not. Any advice? I see several hits on Google, > > but I haven't found a solution yet. > > > > I'm trying to make nouveau work. The proprietary nvidia driver will be > > my last resort. > > The nouveau driver is a work in progress, as even it's developers will > no doubt freely admit. This is especially true for the newest chipsets. > I wouldn't put it past Nvidia to deliberately try to develop new chipsets > which don't work with the nouveau driver to keep us dependent on them > for drivers. (I'm not accusing them of doing so. I'm just saying that > it wouldn't surprise me if they did.) > > Do file a bug report against package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. > > If you want to use a free driver, and nouveau won't work for you, your > next best option is the nv driver. But nv won't work for the newest > chipsets. And if that won't work, then try the vesa driver. > This is a fairly old card, so nv would probably work, but stage 2 is to get tv-out working. I'm not sure I can do that with nv. Anyway, I might have bigger problems. I noticed in Xorg.0.log the following:
(II) LoadModule: "nouveau" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau" (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "nv" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv (II) UnloadModule: "nv" (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "vesa" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev" (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. But 'lsmod | grep nouveau' shows this: nouveau 314892 1 ttm 33386 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 18309 1 nouveau drm 112088 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 3497 1 nouveau i2c_core 12696 5 nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_sis96x button 3598 1 nouveau -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110219200508.gb3...@aurora.owens.net
