<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hello!</div>
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<div>I'm using rather old hardware:</div>
<div>Mainboard (Asus A7N8X)</div>
<div>AGP (Asus V7700)</div>
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<pre class="notranslate">manfred@pc1:~$ lspci -v | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])</pre>
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<div>My operating system is SolydX based on Debian Testing.</div>
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<div>The issue is that I cannot start the system w/o boot option "nomodeset".</div>
<div>I get this information after displaying Grub menu:</div>
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<pre class="notranslate">Linux 3.11-2-486 wird geladen ...
Initiale Ramdisk wird geladen ...
Loading, please wait ...</pre>
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<div>Then the system is freezing and I need to hard reset.</div>
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<div>There's also an error when creating xorg.conf:</div>
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<pre class="notranslate">manfred@pc1:~$ sudo Xorg -configure
X.Org X Server 1.14.5
Release Date: 2013-12-12
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux pc1-asus 3.11-2-486 #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.11-2-486 root=UUID=d0dbf37e-c16b-4633-8fc1-055616704568 ro splash quiet quiet nomodeset
Build Date: 13 December 2013 10:45:09AM
xorg-server 2:1.14.5-1 (Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@ubuntu.com>)
Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 25 23:02:32 2014
List of video drivers:
openchrome
mga
tdfx
trident
vmware
mach64
cirrus
siliconmotion
savage
modesetting
ati
intel
radeon
r128
sisusb
ztv
qxl
geode
neomagic
nouveau
spiceqxl
fbdev
vesa
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
(EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.</pre>
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<div>Nouveau driver is installed:</div>
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<pre class="notranslate">manfred@pc1:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
Installiert: 1:1.0.10-1
Installationskandidat: 1:1.0.10-1</pre>
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<div>Question:</div>
<div>What's causing this issue?</div>
<div>And how can I fix it?</div>
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<div>THX</div>
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