From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:26:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005202126.24441.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljbepefc.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>
On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:21:27 Graham Murray wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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
>
> It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau
> driver.
That's good news.
The next question is the horrible one: does nouveau actually work* yet?
I had to switch back to nvidia proprietary as mouveau had every imaginable
feature I want (especially how to deal with two monitors in a sane way) and
the features functioned correctly, excep that the whole package did not work.
*work: By this I mean work to be synonymous with "perform at adequate speed".
500ms lag on getting a 2D desktop to do something is not defined as "perform"
The engineer in me says this is really just a matter of finding the correct 4
bits to flip in the right register at the right time, so I have high hope for
nouveau.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-20 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 16:56 [gentoo-user] nouveau-drm compile failure Grant
2010-05-20 17:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-05-20 17:54 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-05-20 18:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-20 19:14 ` Grant
2010-05-20 19:21 ` Graham Murray
2010-05-20 19:26 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-05-20 23:06 ` Grant
2010-05-21 5:25 ` Graham Murray
2010-05-21 17:26 ` Grant
2010-05-21 21:10 ` walt
2010-05-21 23:42 ` Grant
2010-05-22 15:58 ` walt
2010-05-22 20:42 ` Grant
2010-05-20 19:05 ` Grant
2010-05-20 19:09 ` Grant
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