On 18 March 2010 14:51, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:48 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Package: linux-2.6
>> Version: 2.6.32-9
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>>
>> Linux 2.6.34 has the nouveau drm module required for running recent
>> nouveau X driver. The nouveau people abandoned UMS so the KMS support is
>> required to run the driver at all and the module in 2.6.33 is too old
>> and there is none in 2.6.32.
>
> Certainly we will package 2.6.34 at some point, but not for squeeze
> which I assume is what you actually wanted.

As long as there is a package in experimental with aufs support it's
quite easy to get testing live CDs.

As long as there is at least some Debian kernel which works with the
driver it starts to sound reasonable to want the driver packaged as
well. At least that's how I see it.

>
> In what way is the nouveau driver in 2.6.33 'too old'?  Have you
> discussed this with the X maintainers?  We do talk to them, you know.
>

In that the driver would not work with the module - X would refuse to start..

I did not talk to X people directly. There is a wishlist bug for
packaging the nouveau driver yet Debian X maintainers currently don't
maintain the nouveau driver. The version in experimental is ancient
and broken, the nouveau libdrm module is not built from current
libdrm.

Thanks

Michal



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