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

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Tue Mar 3 15:55:31 EST 2009


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


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