On Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:56:52 BST Felix Miata wrote:
ianseeks composed on 2016-09-29 19:35 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote: ...
Try driver #3. Purge both nvidia and nouveau drivers from your installation, and ensure kernel cmdline does not include anything to defeat KMS. The result is the modesetting driver integral to the X server should be used automatically unless your nvidia gfxchip is too new or too old.
cf. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-> >> Intel-DDX> I've got a feeling its too old, GT218 (Geforce 210)
Thanks for the info, i'll look into it
modesetting worksforme on TW 20160818:
# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
# Xorg.0.log excerpts:
X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date: 2016-07-19 [ 271.414] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 271.415] Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX [ 271.416] Current Operating System: Linux big31 4.6.4-2-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 19 09:07:19 UTC 2016 (8f4696b) x86_64 ..... [ 271.451] (II) glamor: OpenGL accelerated X.org driver based. [ 271.516] (II) glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2): [ 271.518] (II) modeset(0): glamor initialized [ 271.529] (II) modeset(0): Output DVI-I-1 has no monitor section [ 271.530] (II) modeset(0): Output HDMI-1 has no monitor section [ 271.557] (II) modeset(0): Output VGA-1 has no monitor section [ 271.575] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output DVI-I-1 [ 271.577] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output HDMI-1 [ 271.604] (II) modeset(0): EDID for output VGA-1 [ 271.604] (II) modeset(0): Manufacturer: LEN Model: a12 Serial#: 16843009 ... Thanks Felix
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