[arch-general] X doesn't start for 3.0-rt, X 1.12, nv 2.1.18-5

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 11:14 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:07:03AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> >
>> > A misunderstanding. I tried to use the nv driver, not the proprietary
>> > nvidia driver. On startup I run a script, it's switching between nv for
>> > kernel-rt and nvidia for the default kernel. The kernel-rt worked with
>> > the nv driver, but it doesn't work now. I can't use nouveau for my
>> > setup.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ralf
>>
>>
>> yes and no. xf86-video-nv-* were last updated on 30-Jul-2010. Don't expect that
>> stuff to work any more on current kernels and please use a driver that is in
>> development.
>
> 3.0 is an old kernel-rt and in February the X + the nv driver were ok. I
> still have got backups.

But it doesn't work on current xorg. That's what deprecated means, eventually.