Bug#494755: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: No source for linux-nouveau-modules

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 23:27:39 +0100, Tom Parker wrote:

> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau requires linux-nouveau-modules. AFAIK (and
> I've looked at incoming and the NEW queue) I have no idea where to find/build
> this package, thus making the nouveau module unusable... If I'm missing
> something obvious, then maybe the nouveau driver should recommend the
> relevant other package (similarly to the nvidia-glx package and kernel
> modules) to avoid confusing others.
> 
You need to install the drm-modules-source package, and build modules
for your kernel using module-assistant.  That will build a package which
provides linux-nouveau-modules.

Cheers,
Julien