Just one last stab at this before I put it aside for a little while and try again later..
To recap
I have changed my repos on my LMDE-64bit install to point to SID (unstable).
Before upgrade I uninstalled the Nvidia 195 driver, because update said it was going to Uninstall them.
(all files uninstalled that I had previously installed for Nvidia).
I tired going back to "Nouveau", but that didnt work.
Tried "nv" that worked.
I did all the update/upgrades with
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
took a LONG time (310 updates) but went ok.
Boot failed.
Changed back to "nouveau" from "nv"
That worked, but very low resolution (720x400, I think it was).
Could not make any better in the "monitors" gui setting.
I KNOW that I had 1680x1050 with the default install drivers. I assume it was the "nouveau" drivers.
There has to be a way to improve resolution.
My xorg.conf
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildd@barber) Sun Jun 13 12:08:56 UTC 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
[b]Driver "nouveau"[/b]
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Does anyone know how to change the resolution of the Nouveau driver? I dont see what (if anythng) to change in the xorg.conf. That file is the Nvidia xorg.conf with just the driver section changed from "Nvidia" to "nouveau". This file worked at 1680x1050
Perhaps if someone has a default "nouveau" xorg.conf, they could post it.
Its a shame as LMDE -SID is working fine, except for the video problem.
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PS.
I found that the Nvidia 195 driver didnt work, because the download did not include the dependnecy = nvidia-glx (195.36.31-6).
If I tried to download that seperately it was going to removed a whole bunch of xorg files, that looked necessary. So I am going to wait on the Nvidia till I find a fix.