On 02/11/2012 01:01 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
That making software free is making software better -and not only technically- is obvious. But we are at the mercy of the hardware manufacturers, at least for now, and the nouveau developers have a much more difficult task to achieve that the nvidia developers.Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:On 02/10/2012 11:13 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work.Are you sure? On my laptop which has the same configuration (Wheezy, nvidia, gnome-shell) I can login without problems (I haven't tried setting up a domU though).My information may be out of date. The kernel team does not support the nvidia driver, since we do not have access to its source code and cannot predict what it will do. If you are interested in pursuing a fix from that end, please feel free to file a bug against src:nvidia-graphics-drivers, and the maintainers might be able to point you in the right direction. *searches* Ah, looks like this is already filed as [1], so you can follow up there if you have ideas for moving forward on that. As a nouveau user, of course I'm biased and prefer it. ;-)
My (ambitious) goal is to setup a windoze domU with VGA passthrough to play games in, because I refuse to dual-boot. I could be wrong, but I assumed that the driver used by the dom0 would have an effect on the performance of the domU. And I think that adding another proprietary program to a chain of proprietary programs is not a grave offense.
Thanks, but it didn't work (assuming I didn't make a mistake compiling the kernel). I am confident that this will be fixed as newer kernels or binary drivers become available. Will you leave this report open until then, in case someone else has the same problem?[...]Sorry I forgot, it's GeForce GT 440.Thanks. So this is an NVC3. There has been some important relevant work in v3.3-rc2. Could you test a 3.3-rc2 or newer kernel from kernel.org? See [2] for instructions.
Thanks very much, Jonathan
I am the one that must thank you! ;-) Best regards, Panayiotis
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/570365 [2] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-kernel-org-package or the corresponding page in the debian-kernel-handbook package