On 2011-02-19 21:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:10:34 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to make nouveau work. >> >> There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not >> brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to >> sid, I would recommend trying a Live CD like Knoppix 6.4 or Grml 10.12 >> first. Both come with kernel 2.6.36 and a newer nouveau snapshot from >> August 2010. > > I'm having trouble following what you are saying here.
I was suggesting that Rob try a newer kernel and X driver, since the current ones did not quite work for him. And using a Live CD has less impact than upgrading large parts of the system to sid. > lspci on my > machine has the same the output as Rob Owens and nouveau and the FX 5200 > card are working well together. That's Squeeze and Sid. Thanks for confirming that nouveau on FX 5200 is not broken for everyone -- but on Rob's system it is, it seems. Such are the problems with hardware specific bugs, they are often unreproducible on other systems. Sven -- 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/87lj1brapg....@turtle.gmx.de
