Debian Problem nouveau

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Ok, so I just installed dabian wheezy from their network thingy as a dual boot with windows 8.  I had windows 8 installed and created a new partition on the storage drive and put debian on there.  

When I try to run dabien it gives me this

Loading, please wait...

INIT: version 2.88 booting

[info] using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.

[  ok  ] Starting the hotplug evens dispatcher: udevd.

[  ok  ] Symtjesozomg tje omotoa; jpt[;ig evems...done.

[....] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[    9.041410]  [drm] noouveau 0000:01:00.0: Init table command not found: 0xA9

(a cursor is blinking here and I can't type)

I have looked places but I could only find stuff where I needed access the terminal and I don't know how to do that.  

My laptops parts are

cpu: intel i7-3630QM

GPU: nvidia GTX670mx

ram: 8GB

hdd 0: 750GB 7200RPM (Linux is installed on a partition on this drive)

hdd1: OCZ veretx 4 128GB (Windows 8 is installed on this drive)

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nothing?

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Tried booting into recovery or console mode and either reinstalling the Neuvou (or however the f'ck they spell that) drivers or the current nvidia drivers from the debian repository?

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I am a complete linux noob so I don't console mode or how to re install nouveao but when I go to recovery mode I am greeted by fast moving text until it freezes at this screen with the cursor at the bottom solid and doesn't accept input.

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You need to edit the boot parameters on the grub bootloader so that you can boot to a different X11 level. Usually you make these edits by pressing e or some other key on the bootscreen (Where it shows you the different debian builds on your PC and has you select one to boot from). Check the debian forums and documentation for what lines you want to add here to boot into console/recovery mode so that it doesn't try to load any graphics drivers. I haven't done this in a few years so I'm not able to help you too much but it isn't all that difficult once you check the documentation.

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Alright thank you.  I will try that in the morning.

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The solution is fixed for the moment and I was told on another site to look into something called bumblebee.  You were correct thank you.

I added 'nouveau.modeset =0' to the end of the line that ended in quiet and that seems to allow me to boot into the os.

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I've never used any sort of nvidia anything under linux. It'd be interesting to know your findings.

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Becuase you were curious about my findings here they are.

They are not good at all. Basically all I have tried is installing the driver from the backdoor repo and when I did it kinda got rid of my gui. When I boot it just brings me to the command line and when i try 'startx' it says no valid display or something to that extent. I don't have it up at the moment. What I am going to try to do tomorrow is re install debian entirely to get the gui back and then try to install from nvidia's site download thing.

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Yeah, anyone recommending Nvidia GPUs for linux, or even worse, saying that they are better than AMD, are either being tricked by Nvidia's marketing propaganda, or payed off by Nvidia to spread lies (I wonder which is the case for phoronix.com).

In case anyone is wondering, here's the link to the complete interview from which the above gif is taken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA

 

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Ok so the final findings are I got everything installed and good.  I thought I would need to install the nvidia drivers before installing bumblebee but I was wrong.

What I did was I added the backports repo and then I installed bumblebee with the command

sudo apt-get install -t wheezy-backports bumblebee-nvidia primus.

Now everything should work great.

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At least their proprietary drivers work. fglrx is a joke and the AMD open source drivers are even worse. I haven't used nouveau in X11.

The OpenGL advances mean little for AMD devices, until their drivers can perform without the stuttering they have today.

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If you're a beginner, use nvidia's proprietary drivers and focus on more important things to learn first. Edit Nvm btw.

 

I like how it detected 750 terabytes of VRAM : )