Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 10/17/2016 06:48 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Ric Moore composed on 2016-10-17 17:47 (UTC-0400):
>
> > Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > > Did you consider trying with both NVidia and Nouveau purged? Apparently,
> > > development focus has been migrating into the server-integrated
> > > modesetting driver:
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX
>
> > Thanks! But it seems to be fore Intel based GPU's.
>
> I guess it's not particularly obvious that the focus of the _article_ is
> on Intel, while the _development_ focus is on all three of the
> mainstream gpu drivers.
>
> I've been using the modesetting driver on all hardware that it supports
> in all distros that include server 1.17.0 or newer since before that
> article was written in July. Jessie's server is 1.16.4, but it does
> offer the pre-incorporation version as a separate
> xserver-xorg-video-modesetting .deb that seems to work just as well, as
> long as it's supported by the gfxchip.


ric@iam:~$ lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia_drm             45056  5
drm_kms_helper        147456  1 nvidia_drm
drm                   364544  8 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm
nvidia_modeset        765952  5 nvidia_drm
nvidia              11472896  165 nvidia_modeset
ric@iam:~$

There appears to be some sort of modeset support for nvidia. How to use 
AND keep my nvidia goodies. ??



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