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New install of debian stable has display issues [SOLVED]

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New install of debian stable has display issues [SOLVED]

#1 Post by ckosloff »

I just installed a fresh stable release 9.5.
Problem is that optical display is not right, I get flickering display and cannot type correctly.
Nouveau is installed but I don't know if this is the correct driver, might need to install nvidia, another problem because that does not install automatically.
Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#2 Post by stevepusser »

Please let us know your graphics hardware so we can better help you:

As sysadmin, update your hardware ID database:

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update-pciids
update-usbids
Install inxi and report the output of

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inxi -G
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#3 Post by ckosloff »

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ckosloff@notosh:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD MULLINS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.16.0-1-amd64 LLVM 5.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.9 
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#4 Post by ckosloff »

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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, forum-admin@forums.debian.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
This is what I get when attempting to paste very long output of usbids

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#5 Post by ckosloff »

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Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: modesetting,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV117 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6
This is the right card, I pasted from another computer that I am using while I fix this one.

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#6 Post by debiman »

according to that output it uses nouveau; did you say you wanted to use nvidia instead?

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#7 Post by sunrat »

This could be a tricky one to diagnose. I had a similar problem using either nouveau or nvidia on a system with GTX560 Ti. Fix was even stranger - my mouse was plugged into a PS/2 port via USB > PS/2 adapter. Moved it to a USB port and problem disappeared!
Nouveau should be fine on a 750 Ti, it's ok on the system with 560 Ti and the other system with GTX 970 for normal desktop tasks.
Do you get any errors in the xorg log?

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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Of course it wouldn't hurt to try nvidia driver. You'd probably get better 3D game performance.
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#8 Post by ckosloff »

I cannot attach log becaue system won't allow me.
It is getting too messy with display driver, I could not edit the fstab because cannot see properly what I am typing, so I guess I will have to install nvidia.
Thanks for answer, my mouse is plugged into a USB port.

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#9 Post by GarryRicketson »

ckosloff wrote:

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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, forum-admin@forums.debian.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
This is what I get when attempting to paste very long output of usbids
You have been a member here since :Joined:2011-12-29 09:08, and still do not know how to post a link to any images or files you need to share ?,
File and image attachments are not permitted, one must put the file or image on a storage site, and then include a link to the file or image.
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#10 Post by debiman »

ckosloff wrote:I cannot attach log becaue system won't allow me.
sounds like something straight from fortune-mod-bofh-excuses :lol:

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues

#11 Post by ckosloff »

Some moderator should delete posts of trolls who don't answer questions but go out of their way to pour scorn on other users. By the way installation of nvidia solved the graphical issues, if anybody is interested on commenting on the original subject of the post.

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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues [SOLVED]

#12 Post by stevepusser »

Even for the free nouveau driver, some Nvidia hardware still requires non-free firmware: https://packages.debian.org/buster/firm ... sc-nonfree

But it's too late to determine if that was the problem in your case.

Just to make it cleaer, the commands to update the hardware IDs are to get the best output distilled from the inxi commands; we don't need the output of the update commands themselves. But I really have to wonder what use you thought the inxi output from a totally different machine running a different OS was going to be...
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues [SOLVED]

#13 Post by jibberjabber »

Sorry to go "offtopic", but time for Lesson #103
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Re: New install of debian stable has display issues
postby ckosloff » 2018-08-30 16:20

Some moderator should delete posts of trolls who don't answer questions but go out of their way to pour scorn on other users.
If you have a complaint about a specific post, and feel it should be deleted or removed, that is what the report button is for. A moderator will then know which post you are referring to, I am not "pouring scorn", but I find it hard to understand how a member that has been here since 2011-12-29 09:08 does not know how to use the report button. The report button looks like this: Image
It is up in the upper right corner of all posts, next to the quote button:
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You select the report button, click it and then fill out the form, with your reasons for reporting the post, this way you do not need to derail your own topic making comments about posts by trolls, and also it gives the moderator a way of knowing which post you are talking about.
Usually the moderator will remove the post, if the report is warranted, and if the post really is off topic.
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