[Nouveau] GeForce 8400 GS (follow-up)

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Fernando Negro <f3rn4nd0.n3gr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The thing is, that, although I thought I had already run nouveau in it, I
> was, after all, only running a generic vesa driver, every time before I
> installed the proprietary drivers... And, I suppose that the wrong idea I
> had, of having been able to run nouveau already, was either: due to error
> messages that appeared, before I added the "nomodeset" parameter in the
> kernel line (that I didn't know that made it impossible for nouveau to
> load); or due to having used a previous NVIDIA card that, maybe, could
> already run nouveau, before it started malfunctioning...
>
> Anyway, I decided to finally seriously try running the nouveau driver in it.
> But, after many failed attempts, I was, unfortunately, not able to... And, I
> suspect the main cause for it to be the particular brand of my card, that
> doesn't seem to be very good. (Since that, I know of other people that have
> the same NVIDIA chip, and that are able to run nouveau on their cards...)
>
> The report of my experience, for anyone interested in it, can be read here:
> http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nouveau-mi-eq-overflowing
>
>
> Thank you very much, all of you, for your help.

The logs in the post show that you're using a 3.2.0 kernel, which is
several years old. Might I recommend trying something a bit more
recent? Like 3.11.

  -ilia