michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ sudo swapon -a
michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2015 949 1065 27 55 441
-/+ buffers/cache: 452 1562
Swap: 3905 0 3905
michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $
OK … REBOOT.
When booted, run:
dmesg > ~/Desktop/dmesg.txt
you’ll then find a file on your desktop called dmesg.txt … attach that to your next post
and also post the output from:
free -m
michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2015 826 1189 24 47 392
-/+ buffers/cache: 385 1629
Swap: 3905 0 3905
Is that a more reasonable boot speed ?
To tell you the truth, it doesn’t seem that much different. I’m wondering if at this point, maybe I should just wipe out everything and start over again. I’m sure that you would know if that’s a good idea or not. In the mean time, my wife came home and it’s dinner time. I’ll have to get back to this in the morning. Thank you for all of your help so far. You guys are really great!
I would say that is a significant improvement:
Original dmesg (with swap):
[ 391.758173] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
Second (without swap):
[ 297.320966] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
Now:
[ 143.905468] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
Still got the problem with the EDID which is eating up boot time:
[ 69.689765] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 77.936289] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
[ 86.136711] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
[ 86.278921] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
[ 143.905468] nouveau E[ DRM] DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1
Well, you guys know a lot more than I do and if you feel that it can get better, I’ll do whatever you say. I’m on my phone right now, but I’ll be back at the computer in the morning, so if there’s something I should do, just let me know. Thanks.
It is up to you if you want to carry on or not.
The EDID issue could be down to the monitor not supplying the correct one or nouveau not reading it correctly.
You could try to install the nvidia drivers from the additional drivers for your graphics card.
If I read that graphics card correctly, it’s a GeForce 3 :o
I’m surprised there is even a 2.6 driver for it, let alone a 3.13 driver!
I think to get the appropriate propriatory driver working, you’d have to look at a much older distro to get the correct X & kernel compatibility. I think nouveau is the only realistic way forward (I’m stuck in the same boat with my desktop & its ATI HD4850)
How do I upgrade the driver? Is this something that’s done with the OS or is it something I have to do with Dell?
You can install the Nvidia propriatory drivers by going to “Additional Drivers” and install the nvidia drivers it’s offering you.
In Peppermint 5 go to:-
menu > Preferences > Additional Drivers
Give it a minute or so to search for any proprietary drivers … then if anything is listed, post what’s being offered here.
[EDIT]
How exactly is your monitor attached ?
It said there were no additional drivers available. I didn’t even know that was there? The monitor is connected using what I guess is a serial cable.
What’s the output from:
xrandr
?
FYI, it’s not a “Serial” cable it’s a VGA cable, aka D-sub 15 because of the 15 pins
http://www.millermattson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/vid-VGA1.jpg
Serial cables (aka D-sub 9) only had 9 pins
Now you know who you’re dealing with. :-[ ;D
Here’s the output:
michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.0*
800x600 60.3 56.2
848x480 60.0
640x480 59.9
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
This is a direct connection from the PC to the monitor right ? … I mean there’s not something like a KVM switch in between ?
[EDIT]
Can you also run
sudo apt-get install read-edid
then post any output from:
sudo get-edid > ~/buckwoody-edid.bin
and
parse-edid < ~/buckwoody-edid.bin
This link is only here for my future reference:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=12176.0
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michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ sudo get-edid > ~/buckwoody-edid.bin
This is read-edid version 3.0.1. Prepare for some fun.
Attempting to use i2c interface
Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry!
Attempting to use the classical VBE interface
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
VBE version 300
VBE string at 0x11100 "NVidia"
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call failed
The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
EDID claims 255 more blocks left
EDID blocks left is wrong.
Your EDID is probably invalid.
Looks like VBE was successful. Have a good day.
michael@michael-Dimension-8200 ~ $ parse-edid < ~/buckwoody-edid.bin
You seem to have too many extension blocks. Will not continue to parse
Something strange happened. Please contact the author,
Matthew Kern at pyrophobicman@gmail.com
Have you got a Windows PC that you can attach this monitor to temorarily, or even another Linux one ?
For my reference:
I just have the one computer.
In that case I don’t think there’s much we can do about the EDID issue.
We’d need to somehow extract the EDID info from the monitor, but this can’t be done with this graphics card/OS/driver/monitor combination.
To tell the truth, I’m not convinced it’s slowing the boot process anyway … I just think that error will keep getting repeated in the logs every now and again … so if you’re happy with the monitor resolution as it is, I wouldn’t worry about it.