Re: [arch-dev-public] xf86-video-nouveau/nouveau-drm in testing

4 Mar 2009


      On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:10:23 +0100
Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de> wrote:
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:55:31 +0100
Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
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I've added xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-drm to testing. Together
with Xorg 7.5 this is a nice replacement for the binary crap when
you don't need 3D stuff. 2D works well accelerated. 3D will follow
later with gallium 3d. For more read:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
I run a DualHead setup on my desktop. This is my full xorg.conf for
example:
# the right one
Section "Monitor"
          Identifier   "NEC"
          Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
EndSection
# the left one
Section "Monitor"          
          Identifier   "FUS"
          Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
          Option "LeftOf" "NEC"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia card"
    BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)]
rev 161" Driver "nouveau"
    Option  "Monitor-DVI-I-0" "NEC"
    Option  "Monitor-DVI-I-1" "FUS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    DefaultDepth 24
      SubSection "Display"
       Depth      24
       Virtual 2560 1024
      EndSubSection
    Device "nvidia card"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    Screen "screen1"
    # will be replaced by gallium 3D
    Option "AIGLX" "false"
EndSection
Have fun getting rid off nvidia binary blobs.
-Andy
I have installed nouveau and everything runs fine here on my computer.
The normal work like surfing, building packages, mails, etc. works as
always. There are no problems so far. Ok, there is no 3D at the moment
but who needs 3D. ;) (I don't need 3D)
The installation process was a little bit stony. This way worked:
- uninstalling nvidia and nvidia-utils
- installing xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-drm
- reboot (removing the drm module doesn't work here)
- reinstalling libgl and xorg-server
That's it. After the steps everything worked as expected. Maybe there
is an easier way for installing it (normally removing the module
should work), but it works this way.
I will test it (and the future versions) further and I'm looking
forward for the 3D support.
One additional point:
I'm using an dualhead setup on my desktop, too.