On Thursday 19 March 2015 21:38:15 Ric Moore wrote:
On 03/19/2015 09:19 PM, James wrote:
I want them to fix nouveau. :-)
Last I saw it still wasn't accelerated.
Still isn't, Ric.
Two monitors you might need to
set up randr.
Rotsa ruck at that.
Good luck waiting on nouveau, which is like waiting on
Godot. :) Ric
Actually, the wait is far more in the distro's reticence to keep up with
the X drivers. The kernels nouveau support does advance, but the X
support does not. As I said less than 24 hours ago in another profanity
laden post, I cannot run a new kernel on this wheezy install because the
wheezy X is too old, and the miss-match between the X nouveau support
and the kernels nouveau support is a display speed (freezing for 30
seconds at a time while the sound is stuttering 1/4 second on, 1/4
second off) killer, while the video when it does restart, runs at 20K
frames a sec to catch up.
So I am stuck with a 3.4-9amd64 kernel as the newest I can run and have a
fighting chance of watching a news video from one of the mainsleaze
sites. So I am waiting until Ubuntu 15.04.2 LTS or so, when the guys at
linuxcnc might put together a distro I can use WITH more than 2G of
memory. The 8g that isn't recognized in this machine, running a 32 bit
non-pae kernel, puts me a gigabyte into swap in 24 hours, and we all
know how fast that runs.