On 8/1/07, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't need 3D acceleration but I'm interested in the nouveau driver > because I hope it'll be able to properly set the mode of my card: currently > nv is unable to make my card display 1600x1200 via DVI (it works OK via VGA > but the quality is bit less stunning). > > So I compiled and installed it, but now I encountered a problem: it seems > that (contrary to both the nv and the nvidia drivers) the nouveau driver > does not work at all without the corresponding kernel module. Is that true?
The binary nvidia driver does require a kernel module as well. > Is there some hope to drop this requirement? Not really, actually we're moving towards a world where graphics drivers for X.org depend on a kernel module. Nouvea is just a little early here (for a change :). > > > Stefan "whose kernel says `-1 Unknown symbol in module' when trying > to insert the new drm.ko module" That should be troubleshoot. Usually dmesg mentions missing symbols which in turn points at the real issue. Stephane _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
