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On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:21:27 Graham Murray wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] |
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> > (not completely sure about the versions) |
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> > Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm |
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> > Hopefully it will be *very* temporary |
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> It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau |
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> driver. |
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That's good news. |
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The next question is the horrible one: does nouveau actually work* yet? |
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I had to switch back to nvidia proprietary as mouveau had every imaginable |
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feature I want (especially how to deal with two monitors in a sane way) and |
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the features functioned correctly, excep that the whole package did not work. |
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*work: By this I mean work to be synonymous with "perform at adequate speed". |
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500ms lag on getting a 2D desktop to do something is not defined as "perform" |
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The engineer in me says this is really just a matter of finding the correct 4 |
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bits to flip in the right register at the right time, so I have high hope for |
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nouveau. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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