30 Dec
2011
30 Dec
'11
15:56
Rajko M. wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 04:25:49 PM James Knott wrote:
>> Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
>>>> I just removed nouveau and rebooted. The system seems more responsive
>>>> now and top shows xorg at more normal levels. I'll have to see how it
>>>> does in use.
>>> How you removed nouveau ? it is part of the kernel... echo "blacklist
>>> nouveau">> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf should be enough.
>> As I mentioned in another note, it was listed in Software Manager. I
>> simply deleted it by replacing the check mark with an X. The package
>> removed was:
>>
>> xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for
>> nVidia cards
> While removing xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau should:
> - remove xorg part of nouveau
> - blacklist kernel module nuveau
> - rebuild initrd without nouveau and with nvidia kernel module
>
> You can check is it the case with:
>
> lsmod | grep nouveau
>
> which will show is kernel driver nouveau still loaded.
> If it is then your video system most likely has no access to 3D.
>
> Actually:
>
> hwinfo --gfxcard
>
> should give you comprehensive output that has only one problem,
> it is verbose :)
>
I just ran both of those commands and here's the response:
linux:~ # lsmod | grep nouveau
linux:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
29: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: VCu0.jMHgafQ0xQE
Parent ID: vuMS.wxFwtL2jas4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "nVidia GeForce 7300 GS"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x01df "GeForce 7300 GS"
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x81f3
Revision: 0xa1
Driver: "nvidia"
Driver Modules: "nvidia"
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd1000000-0xd1ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd2000000-0xd201ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 18 (10694994 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000001DFsv00001043sd000081F3bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv
Driver Info #1:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia
3D Support: yes
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #24 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #29
As you can see, there was no output from lsmod | grep nouveau, so I
assume that means it's not loaded.
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