RE: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Viau 

 On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:45:01 -0500 m...@allums.com wrote:
 
 Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages
 so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module?

 They were still in staging, last I looked. That means that you have to
 enable staging drivers in the kernel source configuration and compile a
 custom kernel. This may not be the case for very recent kernels, such
 as 2.6.35/36, but I haven't checked lately.


I believe this is correct judging by:

24.3.2010 posted by xavier

Merge of 2.6.34-rc2.

 On Monday, nouveau git tree went straight from 2.6.32 to 2.6.34-rc2. One 
backlight API change
in 2.6.34-rc2 breaks compatibility with older kernels (
2.6.34-rc2), so people doing out-of-tree builds will have to update
their kernel to rc2. Alternatively, you could try to revert the backlight 
commit. 

[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
  

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nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau 

Hello,

I was just wondering what the advantages of using the nvidia-kernel-2.6 
packages were in contrast to what I am/have been using which is the nvidia-glx 
package which depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms to compile the NVIDIA driver module 
(with the kernel headers) into 
/lib/modules/${kernel_version}/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko

Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages so that 
it only used the NVIDIA driver module?

Thanks.


-M


  

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Re: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón 
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:22:18 -0400, Mike Viau wrote:

 I was just wondering what the advantages of using the nvidia-kernel-2.6
 packages were in contrast to what I am/have been using which is the
 nvidia-glx package which depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms to compile the
 NVIDIA driver module (with the kernel headers) into
 /lib/modules/${kernel_version}/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko

I think (but maybe wrongly) that nvidia-kernel-dkms kernel will allow 
you you build/install a new kernel despite there is a matching in header 
files, whereas nvidia-kernel needs an exact kernel headers 
correspondence.

 Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages
 so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module?

I also think that nuvó driver follows a different path (it uses another 
driver set) :-?

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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Re: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums 



Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages
so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module?


They were still in staging, last I looked.  That means that you have to 
enable staging drivers in the kernel source configuration and compile a 
custom kernel.   This may not be the case for very recent kernels, such 
as 2.6.35/36, but I haven't checked lately.



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