[SOLVED] Atom menu weirdness

DeepDayze · 2017-08-23 02:27:22

damo wrote:

^ inxi needs to be installed for that.
lsmod | grep 'nvidia\|nouveau'

OK that's great alternative way...missed that one.

AL^ · 2017-08-23 02:34:38

al@r4zor ❮◈❯ ~                                                                        [21:31:21] 
:: nvidia-detect                                                                                
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce Go 6150] [10de:0244] (rev a2)
Your card is only supported up to the 304 legacy drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver
package.

lsmod | grep 'nvidia/|nouveau' didn't return anything.

So guess I should install the 304xx driver after I read that link damo gave...

Thanks.

AL^ · 2017-08-23 02:36:02

:: inxi -G                                                                                      
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA C51 [GeForce Go 6150]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@59.92hz, 1280x1024@75.02hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV4E GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2

damo · 2017-08-23 02:50:07

AL^ wrote:

...
lsmod | grep 'nvidia/|nouveau' didn't return anything.
....

Well it wouldn't, because it needs a backslash to escape the pipe character, not a forward slash

AL^ · 2017-08-23 02:52:07

well that makes a difference

:: lsmod | grep 'nvidia\|nouveau'                                                               
nouveau              1122508  3 
mxm_wmi                12515  1 nouveau
ttm                    77862  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         49210  1 nouveau
drm                   249998  6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           12751  1 nouveau
wmi                    17339  3 hp_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
video                  18096  1 nouveau
button                 12944  1 nouveau
i2c_core               46012  5 drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,i2c_nforce2

brontosaurusrex · 2017-08-23 04:58:29

Here is almost the full story
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
on how to install those.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2017-08-23 04:59:04)

AL^ · 2017-08-24 04:26:29

Updating drivers as described in the link... got to this point and have errors... now I'm scared to reboot as I don't want to b0rk it. Am I ok to reboot or do I need to do something else first?

al@r4zor ❮◈❯ /etc/apt                                                                 [23:23:52] 
:: sudo nvidia-xconfig                                                                          

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-server' found
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

Thanks.

AL^ · 2017-08-24 04:30:20

Not sure if it's needed, but here is my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 340.46  (buildd@brahms)  Tue Oct  7 08:00:32 UTC 2014

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

tknomanzr · 2017-08-24 04:42:15

Yeah run the command to setup a default xorg.conf and reboot. If you end up in console for some reason you can revert it back ecause the old xorg.conf will be renamed. If you have mulitple monitors, once you boot to a desktop, you can use nvidia-settings to map tem out among other things.

AL^ · 2017-08-24 04:44:18

that was the command to setup a default xorg.conf: sudo nvidia-xconfig

So you are saying I should be ok to reboot?
*crossing fingers*

AL^ · 2017-08-24 04:55:16

It worked!!!

Thanks to all who helped. How do I edit the topic to add [Solved]?

Last edited by AL^ (2017-08-24 04:56:23)

brontosaurusrex · 2017-08-24 07:20:02

You would edit the title of first post irc.

AL^ · 2017-08-24 12:17:23

That worked.
Thanks again.

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