Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/12/10 20:18, Sven Joachim wrote: ? If nouveau does not suite you and you want the proprietary driver, this is indeed necessary, X will not probe non-free drivers for you. The file only needs to be four lines long: --8---cut here---start-8--- Section

Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a sqeeze system running as (amongst lots of other things) a mythtv backend/frontend combination. Yesterday, after a long overdue aptitude update, I noticed the video playing rather slow. I had previously configured the nvidia kernel module to run because it seem to perform better

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 18:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a sqeeze system running as (amongst lots of other things) a mythtv backend/frontend combination. Yesterday, after a long overdue aptitude update, I noticed the video playing rather slow. I had previously configured the nvidia kernel

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/12/10 18:37, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 18:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I had previously configured the nvidia kernel module to run because it seem to perform better with mythtv Was there an upgrade of nvidia-glx or the kernel? Also, do you use the nvidia-* packages from

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 19:51 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/12/10 18:37, Sven Joachim wrote: This is pretty normal, although you should specify the nvidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, preventing all the probing of other drivers in the first place. Do you even have an xorg.conf? No xorg.conf, so