Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>>> 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.
>
> Well, the xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16_pre20100510 ebuild says:
>
> Nouveau DRM not detected. If you want any kind of
> acceleration with nouveau, emerge x11-base/nouveau-drm or
> enable CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU in the kernel.
> Nouveau DRM in kernel 2.6.33 is API incompatible to
>>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18, please use x11-base/nouveau-drm
> instead.
>
> Unfortunately, the same ebuild depends on >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.19.  I
> tried to ignore the warning but X fails with:
>
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> The xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.15_pre20100213 ebuild only depends on
>>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18_pre so I installed those but I still get the
> errors above when trying to start X.
>
> Any ideas?  Do you have nouveau working?
>
> - Grant

I forgot to mention that I have CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU enabled in my
2.6.33 kernel and nouveau-firmware is loading successfully.

- Grant