Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?
On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core
> to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet
> there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices
> found when usign nouveau driver as prior to the update. However using
> fbdev instead worked out.
>
> I'm wondering if this is just because the nouveau driver is buggy (it
> comes from experimental after all), or because it's been deprecated in
> favor of fbdev. Actually fbdev driver is detecting nouveaufb:
>
> [ 15133.442] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: nouveaufb (video memory: 9000kB)
>
> So perhaps that's the way of noveau now, though if so, it's confusing
> the driver nouveau is still avialable. Perhaps just a bug on the new
> driver, :-)
You need to upgrade your kernel as well, see the NEWS.Debian that comes
with nouveau.
Install the apt-listchanges package if you want to be informed about
important changes in packages.
Sven
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