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Re: [trinity-users] No graphic since upgrade Stretch to Buster

From: "ajh-valmer" <ajh.valmer@...>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:05:06 +0100
On Wednesday 13 November 2019 21:13:32 Michael wrote:
> > > - Get a working system with nouveau.
> > Or not. Do not confuse the nouveau kernel driver with the nouveau DDX (X
> > and Wayland) driver. The nouveau kernel driver provides the kernel mode
> > setting functionality that competent DDXes depend on.
> > Xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is a reverse-engineered, *optional*, DDX built
> > only for NVidia GPUs. The default DDX is newer technology, automatically
> > used when: 1-it supports any non-ancient (AMD or Intel or NVidia) GPU;
> > 2-KMS is not disabled; and 3-no optional DDX is installed. It can also be
> > explicitly configured to be used even though an applicable optional DDX is
> > available. It's provided by the xserver-org package itself. When in use,
> > modeset(0) will normally be found copiously in Xorg.0.log.
> > The modesetting DDX is in use here by all the NVidia GPUs I have that are
> > new enough for it to support, those newer than approximately 10-12 years
> > of age.

> Old mainframe guys like myself probably shouldn't be giving GPU advice ;)

It worked perfectly with Stretch, nvidia non free and xserver-xorg,
and with Buster, completely broken.

I tried, nvidia free and non-free, no result.

I cannot spend hours and hours to repair...

Andr�