Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-08 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 12:52 Felix Miata wrote: > George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 12:02 (UTC+1000): > > > glmark2-wayland is a benchmark for OpenGL 2.0. > > This package intended only for the wayland platform. GL version. > > > glmark2 Score: 5184, i7-3770, Radeon RX 6600 > > > If

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 12:02 (UTC+1000): > glmark2-wayland is a benchmark for OpenGL 2.0. > This package intended only for the wayland platform. GL version. > glmark2 Score: 5184, i7-3770, Radeon RX 6600 > If anyone can comment whether this is good or not, please do. I don't hav

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/08/2024 23:19, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) The following command reports vendor ID and product ID pair lspci -nn | grep -i vga Using it you

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 11:12 Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux).

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 21:12, Van Snyder wrote: I ran glmark2 on my primary desktop, with NVidia Quadro K2200 and the 535 driver. The score was 4455. Then I ran it on another desktop with GeForce GT 630. nvidia-detect says it's "not supported by any driver version up to 535.183.01." Searching for the driver

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux). If Debian and NVidia decide not to keep the driver available

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 02:51 e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: > >> Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau > >> driver handles this card. Is this correct? > > > > With Debi

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on Nouveau, d

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connec

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Dang, I didn't capture dmesg. $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) or I did "AND". Oopsie. $ sudo lshw -C video I couldn't remember the syntax so I ran "lshw > file" th

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): That'll take some doing, as I don't have a non-X mail client. Gimme a bit. Email client shouldn't be relevant. You can redirect dmesg to a file, to copy or pastebin any time. Before retiring the Intel, run g

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> eben composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): >>> Sven Joachim wrote: >> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. >>> >>> [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered > .

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM wrote: > > On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: > > e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): > > > >> Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >>> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the > >>> results. > >> > >> [0.801515] ACPI: bus type d

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on Nouveau, depending on what "working" means to y

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 17:16, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [    0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He me

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He meant run the command with the GTX inst

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): > Sven Joachim wrote: >> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" >> and show us the results. > > [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered > [1.163819] i915 :00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware > i915

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 15:48, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: That may be a sign that the firmware for the card is not installed, AFAIK it is necessary to do anything useful with it. In Debian 12 and earlier the firmware is in the pa

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: >> >>> Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver >>> handles this card. Is this correct? >> >> Some features are missing, e.g. ther

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so tiny > as to > > > be nearly illegible. You can change the grub fonts. I think the default is unicode.pf2, which is usually too small to read on anything but VGA. I found DejaVu

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
NVidia's driver search at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx says that many drivers still available with Debian 12 support this card. I don't know which one is installed by "apt install nvidia-drivers" but it might be 535. You can get a script to install a specific driver from the search pag

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding. Running a desktop should no

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Eben King composed on 2024-08-06 13:11 (UTC-0400): Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Technically, no, because you wrote "the No..." The nouveau kernel module does provide kernel

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding. Running a desktop should not be a problem though. > If so, do I

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
Eben King composed on 2024-08-06 13:11 (UTC-0400): > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? Technically, no, because you wrote "the No..." The nouveau kernel module does provide kernel drm services, in conjunction with l

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. Thanks to Hans for the detailed list, which I was not able to use successfully. I had probably either broken something first, or didn't follow the instructi

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs

2024-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2024-07-04 13:24 (UTC-0700): > The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But it removed > at least KDE, and now it won't enter run level 5. I added > nouveau.modeset=0 to the "linux" line in grub.cfg, but it's still > running the nouveau driver, or at least th

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Hans
This should not have been happened. Maybe you dis something in a wrong way? I treid myself and it did not deinstall kde. It is important, not to do any upgrade while the entry for sid is in sources.list. Just install both packages (as told in the wiki), then after this install remove the si

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > > Hi van Snyder, > > > > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > > but maybe it will work. > > The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But i

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi van Snyder, > > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But it removed at least KDE, and now it won't enter run level 5. I added nouvea

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Hans
Tried again, somehow there was no subject sent with my last mail. So, well, I believe I got a solution. However, not everyone might be happy with it, but maybe it will work. I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:29:43AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) > > 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M > (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. > As abo

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Hans
Hi van Snyder, I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, but maybe it will work. I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other kernels, too. You also need to install the build environment, the eas

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs

2024-07-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/7/24 02:29, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. 2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops bec

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :) 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard. 2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops because my erstwhile SA gave them to me wh

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 02:16:20AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Van Snyder composed on 2024-06-07 13:29 (UTC-0700): > > > The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." > This is support from Nvidia, with official Nvidia proprietary drivers > > been able to install the dr

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-02 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2024-06-07 13:29 (UTC-0700): > Has anybody been able to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in > Debian 12? > The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." It should have said more. Some of what it should have included appears following. # a

Re: Nouveau Is (was: Nvidia + Plasma + Keyboard)

2022-08-04 Thread gene heskett
On 8/4/22 10:41, Felix Miata wrote: This is valuable info Felix, thank you. Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2022-08-04 10:20 (UTC): ... nouveau is a good and supported way forward. NouveauS are. It's deleterious to omit the fact that there are two separate functionality FOSS Nouveaus, one of wh

Re: Nouveau Is (was: Nvidia + Plasma + Keyboard)

2022-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2022-08-04 10:20 (UTC): ... > nouveau is a good and supported way forward. NouveauS are. It's deleterious to omit the fact that there are two separate functionality FOSS Nouveaus, one of which, the Nouveau X display driver (DDX: Device Dependent X), is reve

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2016-12-20 Thread vpathak
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:20:07 PM UTC-4, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? A wild guess (have to look at nouveau code - but didnt get the chance yet) - is that somehow the frame buffer pointer gets

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2016-12-20 Thread vpathak
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:20:07 PM UTC-4, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? > > Have plenty of room. > >   > > Debian Sid box. I encountered a similar error on fedora 25 - sometimes wit

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> > That seems very, very odd, please post logs. > > Here is the result of cat /var/log/syslog.1 |grep -i smart: > > CACHE ERRORs are to what I refer > > Oct 19 11:19:10 dovidhalevi smartd[907]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], > FAILED SMART self- > check. BACK UP DATA NOW! [ snipped long log] > Oct 19

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 19 October 2015 22:25:28 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:53 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > OK, but these errors are marked by smart so may indicate disk > > problems. > > That seems very, very odd, please post logs. Here is the result of cat /var/log/syslog.1 |grep -i sm

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:53 +0300, David Baron wrote: > OK, but these errors are marked by smart so may indicate disk > problems. That seems very, very odd, please post logs. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread David Baron
On Monday 19 October 2015 21:43:41 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:16 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. > > Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? > > Have plenty of room. > > > > Debian Sid box. > > It's not disk space

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:16 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. > Can freeze system (KDE). > Where is this cache? > Have plenty of room. > > Debian Sid box. It's not disk space, it's most likely problem with the graphics driver. Without knowing speci

[SOLVED] Re: Nouveau Resume from Suspend/Hibernate Screen Corruption

2014-07-26 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 03:15:04 +, Dan Sommers wrote: > The thought of less proprietary software is nice ... https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Nouveau Resume from Suspend/Hibernate Screen Corruption

2014-07-22 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:59:08 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-07-22 05:29:48 +, Dan Sommers wrote: >> I just upgraded from the proprietary nvidia video driver to nouveau, >> and > > I wouldn't call that an upgrade (except that nouveau is free). I feel a little forced into it. After

Re: Nouveau Resume from Suspend/Hibernate Screen Corruption

2014-07-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-07-22 05:29:48 +, Dan Sommers wrote: > I just upgraded from the proprietary nvidia video driver to nouveau, and I wouldn't call that an upgrade (except that nouveau is free). > now I am experiencing another variation of a screen corruption issue > when resuming from suspend/hibernate.

Re: Nouveau Resume from Suspend/Hibernate Screen Corruption

2014-07-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/22/2014 01:29 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: Greetings, I just upgraded from the proprietary nvidia video driver to nouveau, and now I am experiencing another variation of a screen corruption issue when resuming from suspend/hibernate. When I resume, the screen saver takes over, and then I enter

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-03 Thread Worrier Poet
On 11/02/2012 04:31 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-11-02 19:20 +0100, Worrier Poet wrote: > >> On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to have a lot harder

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-11-02 19:20 +0100, Worrier Poet wrote: > On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: >>> The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to >>> have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task.

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-02 Thread Worrier Poet
On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: >> The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to >> have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task. >> It's coming along slowly, but the nouveau drivers

Re: nouveau

2012-07-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-26 18:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 26 iul 12, 16:51:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >> There's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640464 for >> which there is nothing new even though I have provided a testcase >> and the problem is 100% reproducible on two of my

Re: nouveau (was: systemd)

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 16:51:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > There's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640464 for > which there is nothing new even though I have provided a testcase > and the problem is 100% reproducible on two of my machines. > > A workaround is to disable optimization,

Re: Nouveau!

2012-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-01 07:54 +0200, David Baron wrote: > This has the "gallium" hardware acceleration code now and this is > fantastic.My > usual tests (using 3.1 kernel version): > > Chromium-BSU space invadors runs flawlessly > > Peguin racer would seem to run fine but has large artifacts, at least on

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-09 20:52:05 Stephen Powell wrote: >On Mon, 09 May 2011 01:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> The problem I am having is a bit more subtle. The framebuffer completely >> fills my 19" monitor, but the framebuffer has gaps on the bottom and right >> of my 24" monitor. Bot

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 09 May 2011 01:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > The problem I am having is a bit more subtle. The framebuffer completely > fills my 19" monitor, but the framebuffer has gaps on the bottom and right of > my 24" monitor. Both are connected to the same physical card.

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081801.00768@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I'm off to experiment some more and see if I can get accelerated nouveau >working on something. I guess even the testing/Sid kernels are worth >another attempt. I won't have the nvidia kernel module tainting the >kern

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <784041656.444588.1304907525303.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:01:00 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> BTW, anyone know how to request that the non-X virtual terminals not use >> the framebuffer? It looks quite weird with my setup

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:01:00 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > BTW, anyone know how to request that the non-X virtual terminals not use the > framebuffer? It looks quite weird with my setup, so I'd prefer text mode VTs > for the most part. I don't think that's possible. If you us

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 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] (re

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:10:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>>There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:42:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory) /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/README.Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > That's bad indeed. > Embarassing goof:

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: 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

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. Yeah, my

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > 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

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:32:38 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. That leaves nv > or nvidia-173.14.27 (which is in Sid). > > Also, I recommend filing a bug against xserv

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 02:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-19 21:32 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. Uhm, nouveau has been supporting this card for years, the fact that it does not w

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
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

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-19 21:32 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled "Entry Level". > > I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. Uhm, nouveau has been supporting this card for years, the fact that it does not work well for Rob notwithstanding. > Also,

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
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

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 01:55 PM, 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: n

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > > this message: > > > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > That's bad indeed. > > > lspci shows my

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows > this message: > > GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon That's bad indeed. > lspci shows my video card as this: > > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForc

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
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 vi

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
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 [GeFor

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:14:30AM +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 20:00:10 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll work on it tomorrow. If anybody has a time-saving > > step-by-step tutorial, don't be shy... > > For my Radeon 9200: > > xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 > > xrand

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 20:00:10 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > Thanks, I'll work on it tomorrow. If anybody has a time-saving > step-by-step tutorial, don't be shy... For my Radeon 9200: xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 Does th

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:07:37AM +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 15:57:31 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of > > TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200 > > outputting to a standard-de

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 15:57:31 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of > TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200 > outputting to a standard-definition television. > > I'll use the proprietary driver if I ha

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:11:47PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-13 21:57 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of > > TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200 > > outputting to a standard-defini

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-13 21:57 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of > TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200 > outputting to a standard-definition television. The Nouveau wiki says "Done" since December 2009¹ for

Re: Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

2010-11-13 Thread Matt Simmons
When using the nouveau driver, there is a folder in /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight/ which contains the max_brightness (1025) and brightness as expected. After digging around a bit, in the kernel source I found these lines of code: /* We do not have any information about which values are allowed

Re: Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

2010-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:51:39 -0500, Matt Simmons wrote: > I am running Squeeze on my laptop: a macbook pro 7,1.Most is going well, > except the backlight screen brightness. Using the nouveau driver (this > laptop has a 320M), it sets my max_brightness to 1025 according to > /sys/. Unfortunately, a

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-13 19:12 +0200, David Baron wrote: >> > As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver >> > (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). >> > >> > Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install >> > nvidia driver. >>

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Camaleón wrote: > As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver > (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). > Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install > nvidia driver. > ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumH

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:27:39 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express > card. Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on > this (even if not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They > run, however, as if th

RE: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Viau
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:27:39 +0200 wrote: > > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. > Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even if > not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They run, however, as if > there were

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-12 22:27 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. > Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even > if > not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). Games requiring 3D will crawl ra

Re: Nouveau Kernel Module

2010-08-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-20 02:49 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: > On 8/19/2010 4:25 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-08-19 10:25 +0200, David Baron wrote: >> >>> Kernels 2.6.33 and on apparently do support Nouveau. I see no option offered >>> in make menuconfig to compile the module. >>> >>> How do I get it ? >>

Re: Nouveau Kernel Module

2010-08-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/19/2010 4:25 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-08-19 10:25 +0200, David Baron wrote: Kernels 2.6.33 and on apparently do support Nouveau. I see no option offered in make menuconfig to compile the module. How do I get it ? Device Drivers -> Staging drivers -> Nouveau (nVidia) cards Sven

Re: Nouveau Kernel Module

2010-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-19 10:25 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Kernels 2.6.33 and on apparently do support Nouveau. I see no option offered > in make menuconfig to compile the module. > > How do I get it ? Device Drivers -> Staging drivers -> Nouveau (nVidia) cards Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: nouveau prob with 2nd card

2010-06-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-30 15:36 +0200, Kent West wrote: > I updated to Sid a few weeks ago to get newer printer drivers so I > could print, and lost my dual-monitor setup in the process. > > I've tried a handful of different video cards that I've been able to > get hold of (none of them dual-head), and simply

Re: nouveau prob with 2nd card

2010-06-30 Thread Kent West
On 06/30/2010 08:36 AM, Kent West wrote: I updated to Sid a few weeks ago to get newer printer drivers so I could print, and lost my dual-monitor setup in the process. I've tried a handful of different video cards that I've been able to get hold of (none of them dual-head), and simply can not

Re: Nouveau driver and kernel 2.6.32-5

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:25:24 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-18 01:01 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The nouveau X driver now apparently works even if modeset=0 is specified >> as a nouveau kernel module parameter. > > It does not, unless the module is loaded with modesetting enab

Re: Nouveau driver and kernel 2.6.32-5

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 01:01 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > The nouveau X driver now apparently works even if modeset=0 is specified > as a nouveau kernel module parameter. It does not, unless the module is loaded with modesetting enabled somehow. Maybe you got the vesa driver instead of nv. > I also fo

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