Re: Display Resolution

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On 2012-08-04 16:39 +0200, Nelson Green wrote:

>> > The nouveau version in squeeze does not support these cards, they should
>> > work in wheezy though.
>> > 
>> 
>> I will probably come in tomorrow to install Wheezy, and I will report back.
>> 
>
> Well, Wheezy is almost perfect. By that I mean I have the proper
> resolution and refresh rate, and my desktop looks great! The only
> thing I see is an occasional line of text that displays wrong. For
> instance, one of the icons on the desktop looks like someone took a
> marker and scribbled all over the icon label, but it went away as soon
> as I clicked on the icon. I have also seen something similar on a web
> page, where a couple of lines of text look like noise instead of
> text. Scrolling made that come back to normal.

Yes, that's http://bugs.debian.org/666468.  Upgrading
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau to the version in unstable might help, but
note that you then need a kernel from unstable as well or lose
acceleration, see http://bugs.debian.org/bug=679557.

> This is still so much
> less of an annoyance that I will live with it if need be. I have
> included the contents of Xorg.0.log below. At least the Nouveau driver