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Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe

From Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe
Date 2016-10-09 19:10 +0200
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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
-- 
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2016-10-09 12:20 +0200
  Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-09 19:10 +0200
    Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 09:10 +0200
      Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-10-10 10:10 +0200
        Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 11:20 +0200
          Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-10-10 12:40 +0200
            Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 16:30 +0200
              Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-10-10 16:50 +0200
          Re: Nvida Legacy 304 Catastrophe deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 13:00 +0200

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