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From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 03:37:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3in4qshuq.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180804054815.GA1932@ca.inter.net>

On Sat, 04 Aug 2018 01:48:15 -0400,
Philip Webb wrote:
> 
> Last month, I sent in a query re Nouveau : thanks for the replies.
> 
> I have emerged it :
> 
>   root:508 log> eix nouveau
>     [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
>      Available versions:  1.0.15 1.0.15-r1
>      Installed versions:  1.0.15-r1([2018-07-26 15:39:37])
>      Homepage:            https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>      Description:         Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards
> 
> I have tried to switch to it with 'eselect opengl set xorg-x11' :
> 
>   root:507 log> eselect opengl list
>   Available OpenGL implementations:
>   [1]   nvidia
>   [2]   xorg-x11 *
> 
> I have renamed  /lib/udev/rules.d/99-nvidia.rules  by appending '.dft',
> as recommended in the Wiki.
> 
> But when I 'startx' & then check  /var/log/Xorg.0.log , I find :
> 
>   (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>      compiled for 1.19.5, module version = 1.0.0
>      ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
>   (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>   (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>   (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>      compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>      Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>   (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  390.67  Fri Jun  1 02:45:19 PDT 2018
>   (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
>   (--) using VT number 7
> 
> I suspect that I need to re-merge some pkgs ;
> I have added 'nouveau' to  VIDEO_CARDS  in  make.conf ,
> but it won't have an effect until a pkg is re-merged.
> 
> Can anyone offer advice what to try next ?
> 
> BTW the Wiki entry for 'nouveau' seems a bit out-of-date.

Maybe something in xorg.conf loads the wrong driver?

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
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         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-04  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-04  5:48 [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau Philip Webb
2018-08-04  7:37 ` John Covici [this message]
2018-08-04  8:27 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-05  7:40   ` Philip Webb
2018-08-05  8:00     ` T BkRl
2018-08-06  6:38     ` Philip Webb
2018-08-06  7:28       ` Andrew Savchenko

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