[SOLVED] nouveau throws up over 32bpp - how to fix?

toad · 2011-01-30 15:21:27

I had nouveau-dri working with my GeForce 210 card and thought I'd see what the nvidia-256 driver as recommended by NVIDIA themselves would do.

It worked but not as well as the nouveau driver. So I got rid of it again, reinstalled nouveau and now X doesn't come up. I hate it when that happens!!!

Xorg.0.log states something along the lines of:

Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp - so I googled that, reset grub to start off big and ugly, have kms start late, i.e. I did everything afaik to get kms/fb not to start in 32bpp. No joy...

The the backtrace has gruesome lines like /lib/libpthread.so.0, /lib/libc.so.6 and stuff like that in it which does not make any sense to me until it comes up with a segmentation fault.

I believe that the colour depth is still the problem, but how to convince it to stay at 24? I even tried an xorg.conf with just a screen section - or should that be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ somewhere?

All pure rocket science to me at this stage...

SOLVED - stupid me! I still had libdrm-git on the system from earlier attempts at nouveau-git

Last edited by toad (2011-01-30 15:51:44)

flamelab · 2011-01-30 15:27:06

Hmm, why is the nvidia 256.x driver (which has issues with Xorg) is recommended ? Why didn't you try the latest one ?

toad · 2011-01-30 15:28:57

Better ask nvidia that... I tried version 260 as well but it threw up all over the place. nouveau proved more stable so I'd like it back again.

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#1 2011-01-30 15:21:27

[SOLVED] nouveau throws up over 32bpp - how to fix?

#2 2011-01-30 15:27:06

Re: [SOLVED] nouveau throws up over 32bpp - how to fix?

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Re: [SOLVED] nouveau throws up over 32bpp - how to fix?

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