On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:25:05PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:47:23PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> > Thanks Andy, it's good to know that the rest looks OK. OF is >> > OpenFirmware (the equivalent of a bios) - mac ppc's have always >> > needed framebuffer consoles. I believe the OF version is what is >> > available when the kernel is first loaded, but I'll try without it. >> > >> Didn't help. I then tried adding video=1600x1200 - that didn't >> stop the screen becoming black, but looking at syslog I can see it >> switched to a 133x54 framebuffer after nouveau had initialised, so I >> think I'll keep both those changes. >> >> I'm now thinking it might be an -rc problem. A couple of commits >> mentioned today on lkml might be worth reverting, or after that I'd >> better try going back to 2.6.36.latest. >> > In fact, the problem was unrelated - nouveau thinks I've got a TV > connected to the NTSC output. Went back to 2.6.35, but no > difference. Then I started playing with the video= options. > Eventually found that I need "video=TV-1:d" - now I'm back to a > 1600x1200 display and nouveau is using DVI-I-2. This is without the > video=1600x1200 option, and without OFfb (this just hands over to > nouveaufb/nvidiafb as soon as the kernel decides to display a penguin, > so it wasn't doing anything useful). > > Now to see if DDX (xf86-video-nouveau) works - to my surprise, my > minimal desktop did still work using xf86-video-nv but I'm sure > that's a recipe for disaster when running nouveaufb so I didn't stay > in it. > > Thanks for all the responses. > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
A few of the drivers (most now?) were updated to support compatibility with KMS. I believe some fine folks from Nvidia are working to make their binary driver compatible as well. The kernel has calls that allow this type of device sharing (and as long as it all works fine, yay.) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
