Well, even with that particular PPA, my screen is detected as 1024x768 instead of its true 1366x768. The last tweak I tried was to force it to work with xorg.conf but the GUI would stop loading completely instead (until the xorg.conf file was reset, that is). - Carlos Solís
2011/12/14 Emil Velikov <[email protected]> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:43:13 -0000, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I've tried to use Nouveau several times, with several operative systems >> (Ubuntu, Mint, Trisquel). Seemingly, the versions of Nouveau are too old, >> since my screen is detected as being smaller than it is. All in all, I >> tried to follow the instructions to build from scratch (in order to have >> the really latest version), and failed. Would somebody mind to create a >> script to download the sources, compile them and install them? >> - Carlos Solís >> > > Hi Carlos > > To the best of my knowledge, an old version of nouveau should not cause > your screen to be "detected as being smaller than it is" > > Nevertheless such a script is quite a tricky thing to make due to the > specific "requirements" every person/ GNU Linux distribution has. > > I have personally worked out a script to build and install the latest > nouveau and I've got fed up with it due to the various hacks that had to > be used - read "Debian(Ubuntu) is using nasty hacks when compiling their > libdrm, kernel" > > Thus I would advise you > > * If you wish to use Ubuntu/Mint try the latest packages from > xorg-edgers[1] > should be up to scratch > > * Try another Linux distribution (such as Arch, Gentoo, etc.) where you can > easily rebuild everything from git > > Regards > Emil > > [1] > https://launchpad.net/~xorg-**edgers/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa> >
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