On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
Hello Stephen,
> Great! That obviously means that the new driver now has support for
> your board/chipset, which means that we no longer have to resort to
Overrides aren't ideal, IMO. Mainly because I forget I've set them, and
the
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:52:57 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:01 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>> But we are making forward progress; so I don't want to give up just
>> yet.
>
> Thanks for you help Stephen. Today I performed a system update and
> noticed that XOrg's
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
Hello Stephen,
> But we are making forward progress; so I don't want to give up just
> yet.
Thanks for you help Stephen. Today I performed a system update and
noticed that XOrg's nv driver was one of the packages updated. My
scree
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:19:40 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> You're welcome, but I am disappointed too. I'm curious to know what
>> the failure symptom was. Did it complain that the chipset override was
>> invalid? Or did it accept the chipset override but fail to init
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
Hello Stephen,
> You're welcome, but I am disappointed too. I'm curious to know what
So, it's not just me then? :-)
> the failure symptom was. Did it complain that the chipset override was
The error message was unsupported de
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:10:00 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>Chipset "GeForce 8300 GS"
>> in the "Device" section. I have no idea if it will work. It's a shot
>> in the dark.
>
> Sadly, no joy with that option, either.
>
>
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:20:26 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,16.Mar.10, 13:56:27, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Maybe one of these days, when I feel more adventuresome, I may give
>> this a try myself. I have two systems at home with Nvidia video cards.
>> The trouble is, they're OLD Nv
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:21 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
Hello Stephen,
>Chipset "GeForce 8300 GS"
> in the "Device" section. I have no idea if it will work. It's a shot
> in the dark.
Sadly, no joy with that option, either.
Once again, Stephen, thank you for all your assistance.
On Tue,16.Mar.10, 13:56:27, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> Maybe one of these days, when I feel more adventuresome, I may give
> this a try myself. I have two systems at home with Nvidia video cards.
> The trouble is, they're OLD Nvidia cards. The proprietary driver
> may have dropped support for the
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:38:07 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote:
>>Chipset "G80"
>> in the "Device" section might work. I'm not making any promises.
>
> Unfortunately, it didn't, but thanks for the tip.
>
>> If it doesn't, look in /v
On 2010-03-16 14:30, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-03-16 17:29 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's the beauty of compiling my own kernel from linux-source-2.6.xx
and installing nvidia from upstream: for months on end, I've got a
stable kernel and video.
Using Sid does mean, though, that occasionall
On 2010-03-16 21:59 +0100, Wayne wrote:
> Just tried to install the source package. listbugs reports that it
> has 2 bugs.
>
> 1. It won't compile
> and
> 2. bad attempt to nest fakeroot sessions.
>
> Testing on a 686.
>
> Just one more package, of many, that got to testing too fast.
You got it
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:34:45 +0100
Sven Joachim wrote:
Hello Sven,
> If you run squeeze, you need to install the nvidia-* versions from sid.
> I don't know why the nvidia-graphics-drivers source package had not
> been removed from testing months ago, as it's utterly broken there (the
> missing n
Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100
Sven Joachim wrote:
Hello Sven,
Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
_are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from
the problems that you describe here.
I actually looked into installi
On 2010-03-16 19:39 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> Hello Sven,
>
>> Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
>> _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from
>> the problems that you descri
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell wrote:
Hello Stephen,
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> > Thanks, Stephen. That's very kind of you. I've changed the subject
> > header, and removed references, so this should appear as a new
> > thread; We'
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100
Sven Joachim wrote:
Hello Sven,
> Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
> _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from
> the problems that you describe here.
I actually looked into installing them, but the
On 2010-03-16 17:29 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's the beauty of compiling my own kernel from linux-source-2.6.xx
> and installing nvidia from upstream: for months on end, I've got a
> stable kernel and video.
>
> Using Sid does mean, though, that occasionally I must go into
> /usr/lib/xorg/mo
Mark Allums schreef:
On 3/16/2010 11:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
_are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from
the
problems that you describe here.
They suffer from other problems. The main one being t
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:15 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-03-16 17:14 +0100, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>> They suffer from other problems. The main one being that they are
>> usually uninstallable. At least, in my experience,
>> apt/aptitude/Synaptic refuse to install it.
>
> Because t
On 3/16/2010 11:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
_are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from the
problems that you describe here.
They suffer from other problems. The main one being that they are
usually uni
On 2010-03-16 17:14 +0100, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 3/16/2010 11:07 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote:
>
>>> A real problem is that Debian is not compatible with the proprietary
>>> driver. Routine system maintenance overwrites files and ruins
>>> configuratio
On 2010-03-16 09:46, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote:
Another possibility
is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which
is newer and *might* support your chipset.
Or the (what's t
On 3/16/2010 11:07 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote:
A real problem is that Debian is not compatible with the proprietary
driver. Routine system maintenance overwrites files and ruins
configurations, requiring reconfiguration. The proprietary driver is
not
On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 3/16/2010 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's
>> great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or
>> the kernel.
>
> It always requires reinstalling with kernel
On 3/16/2010 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's
great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or
the kernel.
It always requires reinstalling with kernel ABI changes, because it
requires a kernel module compile
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Another possibility
>> is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which
>> is newer and *might* support your chipset.
>
> Or the (what's that hissing noise coming from B
On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
[snip]
(WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0848 (C77 [GeForce 8300]) at
0...@00:00:0
...
The above is the most important entry in the log file. You have
an unsupported chipset. Th
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>> If you will provide the following information, I'll be glad to take
>> a look at it for you.
>
> Thanks, Stephen. That's very kind of you. I've changed the subject
>
It seems that there are a varity of xorg problems being reported with
the new testing upgrades. I am _not_ having the same problems as
others so thought I would report them here.
1. startx, as root, works as it should
2. startx as any other user:
When I first tried I kept getting this error
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