Todd Simpson wrote: > That's one of the things I did to get it working. I built libdrm-2.4.23 > with this configure option, I rebuilt the kernel (version 3.1.0) with > Nouveau as a module, and I built the nouveau driver module for X. As > Andrew Benton observed, the latter has to be downloaded with git. > > The InstallDRM page at the Nouveau wiki > (nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM) identifies several kernel > config options that are needed in order to get Nouveau support in the > kernel. Look in section 2, "Compiling the modules," including the file > DEPENDS that you get to through a link in section 2.2. > > When I rebuilt the kernel, I also added EDID support so my monitor could > tell X what its capabilities were. > > I have a GeForce GT 430 video card, which apparently uses the NVC1 chip. > I found nouveau gave me the full resolution of my monitor (1920x1080), > with the display going all the way to the edges of the monitor, which is > more than the vesa driver could do. Nouveau also provides a high > resolution text console. Meanwhile, the nv driver didn't work at all on > my hardware. > > One problem with the NVC1 chip is that acceleration doesn't work with > Nouveau. I noticed that the X window manager twm was not redrawing > window borders properly unless I added the NoAccel option to my > xorg.conf file. When I added that option, windows took much longer to > redraw, but they looked better.
Thanks for the input. I think I'll hold off for now since there are a lot of other packages to update right now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
