From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OF6M7-0001d1-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:04:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF3F0E0786; Thu, 20 May 2010 19:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f180.google.com (mail-wy0-f180.google.com [74.125.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83E8E0821 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 19:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so36399wyi.11 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:03:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=55wlpmq5xqWXGAOrKKqK9vdQHpR3TrLKyVcOC8QZ4Zs=; b=GSkANLCMg7W3xQE8HvA7BC7VQE/6j/AmKk3OVmS+LKrTC000cKfsmenOaTh06ejEwu u0GYFzcEKaEIppgvB0k0dXZojYg9PUe2911ISGJHOVgNeMJnp8MwQxAQ4J4VLqBG8FUY GvulUeJmVQo9e0ax7fxKUMmyCLPkoMZSoATBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=rkEO4yz8scNPcTBxzrOSUUwbGAhwX9mVd15XmFxyJpjNIRA1Xmj+9l+Nri2nOLPivI ElBTq8BNJAx5Tff9fNXzT6Ay93mU/fnQQjwzq50WxDPjxWs6lwlUvlo/pes6xcpSxI1L qbIvXTaWIZR7prW57HlyxBdEkTORxrzoq3gps= Received: by 10.227.137.69 with SMTP id v5mr300595wbt.208.1274382197694; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-57-73.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.57.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t20sm1283900wbc.4.2010.05.20.12.03.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 May 2010 12:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:59:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Nikos Chantziaras References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005202059.57267.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bce07913-07eb-4c67-8057-1742268e9c09 X-Archives-Hash: 5a924f06ec90129257381d4307e8ff57 On Thursday 20 May 2010 19:32:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: > > I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but > > > compilation fails: > I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This > driver is now in the kernel itself. nouveau-drm was used before that > driver moved into the Linux kernel together with the other DRM drivers. > > Also, as a consequence, trying to use nouveau-drm means you're getting > an outdated driver, since AFAIK the updates happen in-kernel now. There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not completely sure about the versions) Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm Hopefully it will be *very* temporary -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com