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 1OF5H8-0008FL-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:54:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4C64E081F; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E53AE081F for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4745D1B4009 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.986 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.986 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.387, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lSyineIDIhd0 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E676F6505A for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF9wo-0003ZP-5S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 19:54:18 +0200 Received: from athedsl-394855.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.94.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 19:54:18 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-394855.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 19:54:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:54:45 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-394855.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100410 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 9b7c0699-12d0-4cd5-9edc-5d78942691d5 X-Archives-Hash: 7ded18123d8de554328c88cc0d4365c3 On 05/20/2010 08:32 PM, 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. I forgot to mention *where* in the kernel configuration you can enable nouveau. It's in Device Drivers->Staging drivers