homunq
November 7th, 2009, 01:17 AM
When I initially upgraded to Karmic, I had BOTH NVidia (binary) AND nouveau drivers running (!) according to "system:Hardware Drivers". I considered that a problem and turned them both off, hoping to reboot and turn just nouveau on. On reboot, I had no X - just some random crap on my screen until I dropped to the terminal. I messed around. If I tried to use the nvidia drivers, I'd get the flickering (or, with kdm, a cleaner unflickering fail). Eventually (as root)
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe /etc/X11/xorg.conf #has vesa driver
apt-get remove nvidia*
(of course, I'd previously gotten
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
to work - I had to fix dkms to get it to install correctly, I think I had it wedged from earlier)
... got me booting with just the vesa driver. Then, I could go into "Hardware drivers" and enable nouveau, and it would immediately start to work with acceleration.
BUT - on reboot, the acceleration is gone. I have to turn off nouveau, reboot (to make it really turn off), and turn nouveau back on, in order to get it to work again. Then it works until the next reboot.
Can anyone help me figure out why nouveau only loads manually?
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe /etc/X11/xorg.conf #has vesa driver
apt-get remove nvidia*
(of course, I'd previously gotten
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
to work - I had to fix dkms to get it to install correctly, I think I had it wedged from earlier)
... got me booting with just the vesa driver. Then, I could go into "Hardware drivers" and enable nouveau, and it would immediately start to work with acceleration.
BUT - on reboot, the acceleration is gone. I have to turn off nouveau, reboot (to make it really turn off), and turn nouveau back on, in order to get it to work again. Then it works until the next reboot.
Can anyone help me figure out why nouveau only loads manually?