Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 18:21 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > [...] > > Harry wrote: >>> It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into >>> maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d. >>> >>> I press C-d and it finishes booting up normally. >

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into >> maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d. >> >> I press C-d and it finishes booting up normally. Sven Replied: > This is rather odd and indicates that you ar

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-28 11:38 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > First, you did mean to put `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line > right? Yes. > I forgot one aspect of having `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line. > > It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into > maintenance mode. T

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: [...] > However: > >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alternatively, boot with >> nouveau.noaccel=1 to disable acceleration > > Seems to be golden... It does seem to stop the goofy login at console > screen. And since my uasge on linux is never heavily graphics oriented > I see

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] > > You have to edit the line starting with "linux", putting parameters > after /vmlinuz-$version . Finding that line was the problem... I found /boot/grub.cfg and the kernel line there > You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should > give you the

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-25 03:23 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should give >> you the vesa driver under X. Alternatively, boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 >> to disable acceleration. > > Where would I put such things? When I try to

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] > Do you use plymouth? No, nothing to do with plymouth is installed [...] > You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should give > you the vesa driver under X. Alternatively, boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 > to disable acceleration. Where would I p

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-24 19:09 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Before getting into some of the suggestions let me first make sure I'm >> even running the nouveau driver. Looking a little closer at aptitude >> output, it could be indicating th

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-23 14:26 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > setup: > Running Debian testing > Video card (from lspci): > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce > FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: > Micro-Star International ... >

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Before getting into some of the suggestions let me first make sure I'm > even running the nouveau driver. Looking a little closer at aptitude > output, it could be indicating that I'm not actually running the xorg > driver but using n

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running > Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just > ditch that nouveau driver. > > Can anyone guide me a bit as to how to do that? [...] Before getting into some of the suggestions le

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 13:50 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-23, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running > > Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just > > ditch that nouveau driver. > > > > Can anyone guide me a bit a

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running > Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just > ditch that nouveau driver. > > Can anyone guide me a bit as to how to do that? > I don't think you can go back to the '

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 14:26, Harry Putnam a écrit : setup: Running Debian testing Video card (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International ... I'm getting some

How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
setup: Running Debian testing Video card (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International ... I'm getting some kind of horrible sequence of events on many (