On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 08:53:19AM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 01:57:02AM +0100, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 03:06:01AM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:09:20AM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > > > Without hardware acceleration my PowerBook G4 12'' with a NVIDIA > > > > GeForce FX Go 5200 is unusable. Since XAA is no longer supported, > > > > here's a simple EXA backend for nv(4) based on the XAA sources and > > > > Nouveau. It only implements Solid and Copy but that already makes > > > > a huge difference. > > > > > > > > To test it you need to regenerate configure scripts for xf86-video-nv > > > > as described in /usr/xenocara/README. > > > > > > > > I can provide a diff for upstream it the driver is still maintained. > > > > > > > > I'd like to hear from people using NVidia cards. > > > > > > > > > > This is quite an impressive improvement, thanks a lot! Full screen > > > video becomes watchable. However, trying to move an xterm with the > > > mouse still isn't fun. > > > > Try this xorg.conf: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "nvidia modesetting" > > Driver "modesetting" > > Option "HWCursor" "off" > > EndSection > > Thanks for the suggestion, but putting this in a new file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf results in xdm refusing to start both on boot time > and with startx. I don't know anything about xorg.conf, so it may well > be that I'm missing something obvious. Here's the resulting Xorg.log
Both of you are confused by what mpi@ sent, his diff was for adding EXA acceleration to the nv(4) Xorg DDX driver. This is the older user modesetting driver that was abandoned by nVidia, but is still useful older hardware. The KMS drm driver for nvidia (nouveau) isn't ported, so even the basic modesetting configuration offered by Juan has no chance of working. -Bryan. > [ 57.049] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" > [ 57.050] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so > [ 57.051] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > [ 57.051] compiled for 1.17.4, module version = 1.17.4 > [ 57.051] Module class: X.Org Video Driver > [ 57.051] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0 > [ 57.051] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms > [ 57.052] (EE) open /dev/drm0: Device not configured > [ 57.052] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting > [ 57.052] (EE) open /dev/drm0: Device not configured > [ 57.052] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. > [ 57.052] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting" > [ 57.052] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file. > [ 57.052] (EE) > Fatal server error: > [ 57.052] (EE) no screens found(EE)
