David Baron composed on 2016-10-09 13:17 (UTC+0300): > These packages upgraded (though they seem no longer on Debian!). The upgrades > would not play with opengl2 so plasma would no longer run. Downgrading to > testing, due to partial removal from the repos, proved impossible. No more > means to file bugs, either! > So I uninstalled them, went back to Nouveaux (which I might even prefer). > Plasmashell is unstable, crashes and restarts, and multiple session will not > work. Could live the a single-session if that be stable. > There had been problems with firefox in nouveaux last year.
> What to do about all this? Show us output from 'lspci | grep VGA' If output includes 6150SE, try adding nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 to kernel cmdline. Show us output from 'inxi -Fz' Show us /var/log/Xorg.0.log Ensure all traces of NVidia driver are purged, including /etc/X11/xorg.conf which for most people with most gfxchips using FOSS drivers has not been necessary for several Debian generations. With proprietary NVidia driver never having been installed, lsmod output should resemble the following with legacy geforce gfxcard: button 12944 1 nouveau drm 249998 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau drm_kms_helper 49210 1 nouveau i2c_algo_bit 12751 1 nouveau i2c_core 46012 5 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau mxm_wmi 12515 1 nouveau nouveau 1122508 2 ttm 77862 1 nouveau video 18096 1 nouveau wmi 17339 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau Ensure kernel cmdline does not include nomodeset. Ensure nothing to do with nouveau is blacklisted. If a thorough nvidia purge is insufficient, you might try purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. In Debian Testing and Unstable, this should cause use of Xorg's built-in modesetting driver. See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
