Bug#593874: nvidia-settings: Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page: Failed to query NoScanout for screen 0.

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Saturday, 21. August 2010 21:03:57 Mike Viau wrote:
> Subject: nvidia-settings: Unable to load X Server Display Configuration
> page: Failed to query NoScanout for screen 0. Package: nvidia-settings
...
> Using a Lenovo R61 laptop with a NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
> VBIOS Version: 60.86.3e.00.00
> Memory: 512 MB
>
> Installed also is the nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms kernel
> module package and its dependancies.

Why don't you use the current driver? It works perfectly on my T61 with an 
identical GPU.

When switching the drivers, please first *purge* all legacy-173xx packages. If 
this fails, update the legacy-173xx packages to 173.14.27-1 (currently in 
unstable) and *purge* them afterwards. (Purging the packages ensures no 
broken maintainer scripts from old versions remain on your system that may 
cause trouble later on.)
Then install nvidia-glx etc. 195.36.31-3 from unstable.


Andreas