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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:31:46 +0100
> Henry Bremridge wrote:
>
> > Switched her system from Ubuntu to Squeeze/Gnome and there is an
> > increasing problem in that her desktop freezes: keyboard / mouse does
> > not work. If I log in remotely and kill Xorg then the machine resets
> > and no problem
> >
> > The machine has nvidia graphics and I think under Ubuntu the
> > restricted nvidia driver was used.
> >
> > Looked at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers and tried to
> > change the drivers but
> > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> > does nothing
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions on installing the nvidia drivers or reconfiguring
> > X?
>
> Does this machine *need* the nVidia drivers, or would nv/nouveau
> suffice?
>
$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 0.0.15
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
--
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.1.17
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
--
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
Is all I know. I think from looking at the Xorg.0.log, nouveau is being
used
I was hoping to look inside Xorg and see what the settings are: and if need
be trying nvidia drivers and see if that fixes the problem
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