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<div>Hello Christopher,</div>
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<div>thanks for your posting.</div>
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<div>Yes, the driver I tried was the proprietary (nvidia-detect-)suggested nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver. When I configure nouveau to be used I get the following error (Xorg.0.log):</div>
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<div>[ 537.096]<br/>
X.Org X Server 1.19.2<br/>
Release Date: 2017-03-02<br/>
[ 537.096] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0<br/>
[ 537.096] Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 i686 Debian<br/>
[ 537.096] Current Operating System: Linux uli 4.9.0-3-rt-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5 (2017-09-19) i686<br/>
[ 537.096] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-3-rt-686-pae root=UUID=30333d3d-39dc-4635-ab28-81c8eed4a21b ro<br/>
[ 537.096] Build Date: 07 July 2017 06:13:53AM<br/>
[ 537.096] xorg-server 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1 (https://www.debian.org/support)<br/>
[ 537.096] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0<br/>
[ 537.096] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org<br/>
to make sure that you have the latest version.<br/>
[ 537.096] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,<br/>
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,<br/>
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.<br/>
[ 537.096] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Oct 3 10:56:36 2017<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"<br/>
[ 537.097] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)<br/>
[ 537.097] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"<br/>
[ 537.097] (**) | |-->Device "Device0"<br/>
[ 537.097] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"<br/>
[ 537.097] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Automatically adding devices<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Automatically enabling devices<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff<br/>
[ 537.097] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.<br/>
[ 537.097] Entry deleted from font path.<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) FontPath set to:<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,<br/>
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,<br/>
built-ins<br/>
[ 537.097] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"<br/>
[ 537.097] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.<br/>
[ 537.097] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0<br/>
[ 537.097] (WW) Disabling Mouse0<br/>
[ 537.097] (II) Loader magic: 0x6c1720<br/>
[ 537.097] (II) Module ABI versions:<br/>
[ 537.097] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4<br/>
[ 537.097] X.Org Video Driver: 23.0<br/>
[ 537.097] X.Org XInput driver : 24.1<br/>
[ 537.097] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0<br/>
[ 537.099] (++) using VT number 2</div>
<div>[ 537.105] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_33<br/>
[ 537.106] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)<br/>
[ 537.106] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 11 paused 0<br/>
[ 537.109] (--) PCI:*(0:0:16:0) 10de:07e1:1462:7366 rev 162, Mem @ 0xfd000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfc000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072<br/>
[ 537.109] (II) LoadModule: "glx"<br/>
[ 537.109] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libglx.so<br/>
[ 537.148] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"<br/>
[ 537.148] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0<br/>
[ 537.148] Module class: X.Org Server Extension<br/>
[ 537.148] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.135 Tue Jan 17 15:15:59 PST 2017<br/>
[ 537.148] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"<br/>
[ 537.149] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so<br/>
[ 537.149] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"<br/>
[ 537.149] compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 1.0.13<br/>
[ 537.149] Module class: X.Org Video Driver<br/>
[ 537.149] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0<br/>
[ 537.149] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date: Tue Sep 20 00:31:06 2016 -0400<br/>
[ 537.149] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :<br/>
[ 537.149] RIVA TNT (NV04)<br/>
[ 537.149] RIVA TNT2 (NV05)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 256 (NV10)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 3 (NV20)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce FX (NV3x)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 6 (NV4x)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 7 (G7x)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce 8 (G8x)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)<br/>
[ 537.149] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)<br/>
[ 537.149] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -22<br/>
[ 537.149] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -22<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:00:10.0: -22<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE) No devices detected.<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE)<br/>
Fatal server error:<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE) no screens found(EE)<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE)<br/>
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support<br/>
at http://wiki.x.org<br/>
for help.<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.<br/>
[ 537.150] (EE)<br/>
[ 537.151] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.</div>
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<div>This looks to me as the nouveau driver does not support my older GPU NVIDIA Corporation C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] (rev a2) any more.</div>
<div>Does anybody know if there is a nouveau driver supporting the GeForce 7100 somewhere available for download?</div>
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<div>Thanks and regards,</div>
<div>Andreas</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 02. Oktober 2017 um 19:50 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Christopher Barry" <christopher.barry@earborg.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Andreas Köhler" <A.Koehler.Tux@gmx.de><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> xorg@lists.x.org<br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: X does not start any more since upgrading to Debian 9.1 with NVIDIA GeForce 7100</div>
<div name="quoted-content">On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 19:39:41 +0200<br/>
"Andreas Köhler" <A.Koehler.Tux@gmx.de> wrote:<br/>
...snip<br/>
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>Your card is only supported up to the 304 legacy drivers series.<br/>
>It is recommended to install the<br/>
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver<br/>
>package.<br/>
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snip...<br/>
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br/>
did you try that? if yes, and it failed as well, maybe try the<br/>
proprietary nvidia driver from their site (if you are ok with non-free,<br/>
of course)<br/>
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--<br/>
Regards,<br/>
Christopher Barry<br/>
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