Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-05-26 22:50:43 +0200:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:22:15AM -0600, Tavian Barnes wrote:
Yeah you can. nv isn't a kernel module though, it's just an Xorg driver, still using UMS. To use it,
1) Blacklist nouveau and nvidia 2) Install xf86-video-nv 3) Set Driver to "nv" in xorg.conf
And, even if nv doesn't work for you, there's always xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-fbdev.
Many thanks !
I did as you suggested. Booting the default image failed with what looked like a very long backtrace and froze the machine.
But booting fallback worked, and after an mkinitcpio also the default worked.
Result: rock-stable audio, and the display is a fast as it needs to be.
Again many thanks, finally I can start using this system.
BTW, what is the official advantage of KMS ? Having RL 3 and ttys that do not depend on a video driver seems like a good thing (TM) to me.
Ciao,
Glad it works for you now. KMS was advertised mainly with he following features: - TTY in native resolution and hence nicer to look at - shorter delay when switching from X to TTY -- Regards, Philipp ----- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan