Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From	brian <brian@meadows.pair.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date	2016-10-03 09:50 +0200
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:55:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400):
>
>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err404@free.fr wrote:
>
>>>what is your hadware?
>>>graphic card?
>>>and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc.
>
>> It's an eMachines desktop which was originally supplied with Windows
>> 7. I wiped Windows and loaded on Wheezy from a live DVD. The CPU is an
>> Athlon II x2 220 @ 800 MHz. The graphics (on the motherboard) is a
>> GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430 rev a2.
>
>This has been a problematic gfxchip for more than one user over the years. 
>Try adding this to the kernel cmdline:
>
>	nouveau.config=NvMSI=0
>
>I have a machine with the same gfxchip on its motherboard,
>https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/K9N6PGM2V.html
>but currently it doesn't have any Debian installed on it to check which if 
>any releases are helped by it. It does have openSUSE 13.1 (kernel 3.12, 
>server 1.14.3), 13.2 (kernel 3.16, server 1.16.1), 42.1 (kernel 4.1, server 
>1.17.2) and Tumbleweed (kernel 4.7.4, server 1.18.4) installed. All four 
>suffer random brief video corruption running X. Tumbleweed seems to have 
>almost eliminated the corruption that is excessive and unacceptable in the 
>others. IIRC, last Debian tried on it was Wheezy with Gnome or Mate or 
>Cinnamon, and too much trouble or impossible at that time to actually use X.
>
>Something else to try is ensuring xserver-xorg-video-modesetting is 
>installed, then purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and all traces of NVidia's 
>proprietary driver bits. The modesetting driver has been getting quite some 
>attention from the devs:
>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX
>
>The original owner of this motherboard suffered to the extent he installed a 
>PCI gfxcard as a workaround when the motherboard was rather young. I got the 
>motherboard free when when he bought a new one that I installed after its 
>original RAM went bad.
>

Thanks Felix, I'll give it a try as soon as I can persuade my wife to
stay off the PC for a while, and report back. It will be a week or so
though, as I've got a couple of chapters of a book to deliver with a
deadline of next weekend. 

Brian.

Thread

Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-02 18:30 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 19:00 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie err404@free.fr - 2016-10-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 20:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-03 07:00 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-03 09:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-02 20:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 21:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 19:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 19:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 21:10 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 21:50 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-04 20:50 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-04 22:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 12:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-05 20:10 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 21:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-06 20:50 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-07 22:30 +0200
                Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-09 23:50 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-05 18:20 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re:: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 21:00 +0200
                Re: : Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 21:40 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 20:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 22:10 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-10-02 23:50 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-06 00:00 +0100
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 02:10 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2016-10-05 17:20 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-07 03:30 +0200

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