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 EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
canada
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| Frustrating weekend I was running deb stable 64bit with great success for a while now.
Due to my gtx260 crapping out on me, over the weekend I purchased a GTX560 for the system.
A nice card to be sure, but imagine my surprise when I couldn't get an X session, oops, yeah I have to update drivers.
I'm used to workarounds regarding video drivers, but this had me stumped.
I spent over 5 hrs trying to update the drivers. That is a long time for me. And the time was wasted, as the distro drivers will not work on this card. Turns out if you want to run hardware that is over a year old, well the stable distro ain't for you.
Huh, ok 5pm rolls around with me still sitting there looking at a console, and this google answer infuriating me.
Hmm, apt dist-upgrade to testing, why not?
Oops, that route completely hoses the system. Upon reboot, hundreds of errors, no networking, console awaiting next miracle command.
D-load testing netinstall cd. It ships with linux kernel 3.x.x, a choice between gdm, gdm3, and kdm that's new!
Complete reinstall. At least I have /, /boot, /usr, /tmp, /home, swap, and /var on separate partitions to make my life easier.
9pm rolls around, I have a working system, have created the same users in the same order so that they take possession of the existing /home directories.
The slickest part of 'nix is how if you have a separate /home, and recreate users, it_just_works. Signed into my new system, open iceweasel, wow, my last session opens, all pages are there.
Open chromium same thing!
Open a session for the wife, open her email, wow, all credentials have been saved, no need to re-input. Her web session is saved as well.
Testing has problems. I noticed the screen becomes completely unusable when coming back from a screensaver, desktop flashes, things turn black, basically completely unusable as soon as you come back after screensaver kicks in, or open a new session.
Turning off the "compositing" in the desktop effects (for all users) seems to bring KDE back to some semblance of usability, but I have not had enough time to really verify.
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 firephotoKDEPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA
 ·Frontier Communi..
| reply to EUS
I don't have that new of an nvidia card but I've always ran these settings with kde. RenderAccel and the GLX ones would affect the plasma/kwin behavior.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
# force Powermizer to a certain level at all times
# level 0×1 = highest
# level 0×2 = med
# level 0×3 = lowest
Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevel=0x3
EndSection
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 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
join:2005-01-26
Plano, TX
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| reply to EUS
My Nvidia 8800GT 512MB crapped out on me recently, and I replaced it with a GTX 560. (That's like a 5 or 6 generation jump there.) I had no issues at all on Fedora.
I also always use Nvidia's binary driver from the RPMFusion repo as well. Maybe you should look at installing the latest Nvidia binary drivers?
Also, I'm not sure on Debian, but Fedora has not used xorg.conf file in many years. If you have one you might try removing it.
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EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
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| reply to No_Strings
Yeah, my frustration came from not being able to fix the problem.
So, I fell, and fell, and fell again. That's when I threw the bike into the river, and bought a car.
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EUSKill cancerPremium
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| reply to rexbinary
I use only the distro drivers, not drivers directly from nvidia. Things just seem to work better, especially after a kernel, or driver update.
But, Debian stable is to conservative, and there seems to be incompatibility between the stable release, and "new" hardware.
The info I found stated that "stable" supported some cards up to 4xx series of nvidia, not 5xx.
Like I said, I gave up after 6hrs of fiddling, I'm sure there was a fix, but I had gone too far, and needed to nuke it from orbit.
xorg.conf exists in debian as well, and for years I have been able to update h-ware/drivers without resorting to re-installing, but not this time.
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