Bug#664045: Re: Bug#664045: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xorg is not configurable, colour depth is limited to 8 bit with nouveau and nv drivers

To: Andreas Glaeser <bugs.andreas.glaeser@freenet.de>
Cc: 664045@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#664045: Re: Bug#664045: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xorg is not configurable, colour depth is limited to 8 bit with nouveau and nv drivers
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:51:21 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 87bon573py.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
Reply-to: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, 664045@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <20120405122648.18d43067@osrdii.lokal> (Andreas Glaeser's message of "Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:26:48 +0200")
References: <20120405122648.18d43067@osrdii.lokal>

Am 05.04.2012 um 12:26 schrieb Andreas Glaeser:

> Now I set FB_NVIDIA=n and tried to boot the result from my build. See
> Attachments: .config.gz and screenshot.jpg.
> I took the screenshot at the moment, when the boot-process hung.
> The message of interest is probably: 
> fb: conflictung fb hw usage nouveaufb vs OFfb NVDA,NVMac - removing generic driver

This is supposed to work, but the Nouveau WikiÂ¹ mentions that there are
still problems with it.  Does it help if you build the kernel with
CONFIG_FB_OF=n and CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y?

Cheers,
       Sven


Â¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

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