Re: Nouveau
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:44:35 debian-user-digest-
request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian
> > support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers
> > that will only work on "legacy" Xorg with no warning.
>
> Do you not know what Release Notes are?
>
> > Their installation should kick,
>
> What's wrong with it's perfectly functional, logical and clear TUI
> installation script?
Debian packages have dependencies and it the package is dependent on Xorg <
1.5 !!!!, then it will not install.
I think that Nvidia's installation script can do the same. Debian's current
(outdated) nvidia-legacies will no longer compile and install, at least the
last I tried them.
>
> > the site should warn before download. This is an old story, royal
> >pain
> >
> > the the you-know-where.
> Only a pain if you don't know what Release Notes are, and you use a
> Display Manager because you're too gooey to log into a console like
> God Intended You To.
I tried the installation from a console. It itself uses a curses GUI which is
irrelevant. If it is smart enough to know if X is running, there was a former
installation, etc., etc., it is smart enough to check for a compatible Xorg.
No excuses.
> > Keeping Nouveau in that erstwhile dri trunk means they'll never get
> > anywhere. This trunk has been all but abandoned and most stuff there
> > will not compile and will not work. Nouveau deserves better..
>
> According to every story I've read, Nouveau is constantly improving.
> In fact, it was merged into 2.6.33.
So it was. Now that was release notes I really should have read.
I will go into make menuconfig and enable the module and maybe give the old
card one more try. Need something better than a TNT in any event.
> Still, benchmarks show it trailing way behind the binary driver.
There is NO binary driver for all intents and purposes. Unless one runs ....
Windows.
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