Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> ...
>> Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign
>> nouveau driver as prior to the update.  However using
>> fbdev instead worked out.
>> ...
>
> 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

You were quiet right:

++++
% zcat /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/NEWS.Debian.gz
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:0.0.16+git20100518+4b8f1a0-1)
experimental; urgency=low

  * This version of xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is linked against a newer
    libdrm-nouveau which breaks the ABI and is not compatible with kernels
    <= 2.6.33.  You need to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.34-rc1 or newer.

 -- Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>  Sat, 22 May 2010 10:22:42 +0200
++++

And the 2.6.37-trunk version in experimental solved the issue...

I had apt-listchanges, but it's quiet overwhelming, I still have
apt-listbugs though, :-)  Perhaps I should try installing it again...
I recon my bad for not having listchanges, but I'm wondering why not
having the package dependent upon kernel >= 2.6.33?  Any ways, not an
issue, :-)

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Javier