Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" (was: nvidia package wrong documentation?)
On 2023-03-23 13:38:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> It could be the exhibition of ignorance represented by the above
> quote leads triagers and developers to ignore many problem reports.
> There is no such thing as "the nouveau driver" in Debian:
This is not true. From old Xorg logs:
[194415.365] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date: Fri Apr 21 14:41:17 2017 -0400
[194415.365] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
> 2-X requires *a* display driver, which in the case of NVidia GPUs depends on KMS
> functionality provided by a nouveau kernel device driver for optimal performance.
> One such display driver is named nouveau, and is provided by
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. The Xorg server .deb provides an alternative driver
> named modesetting. The modesetting driver:
>
> A-is a newer display driver technology;
> B-does not require reverse-engineering;
> C-is the upstream default display driver;
> D-supports all GPUs for which a kernel device driver providing KMS is available;
> E-is automatically employed when applicable xserver-xorg-video-* is not installed.
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/DebianPackages.html recommends
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
However, it seems that a "modesetting" module is loaded by default:
[685925.554] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[685925.554] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[685925.554] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[685925.554] compiled for 1.18.1, module version = 1.18.1
[685925.554] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[685925.554] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
[...]
[685925.555] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
This is from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814902
(a different machine, but basically with the same config).
It seems that I haven't kept any Xorg log for the concerned machine.
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