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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 07:37:13
Message-Id: m3in4qshuq.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau by Philip Webb
1 On Sat, 04 Aug 2018 01:48:15 -0400,
2 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >
4 > Last month, I sent in a query re Nouveau : thanks for the replies.
5 >
6 > I have emerged it :
7 >
8 > root:508 log> eix nouveau
9 > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
10 > Available versions: 1.0.15 1.0.15-r1
11 > Installed versions: 1.0.15-r1([2018-07-26 15:39:37])
12 > Homepage: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
13 > Description: Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards
14 >
15 > I have tried to switch to it with 'eselect opengl set xorg-x11' :
16 >
17 > root:507 log> eselect opengl list
18 > Available OpenGL implementations:
19 > [1] nvidia
20 > [2] xorg-x11 *
21 >
22 > I have renamed /lib/udev/rules.d/99-nvidia.rules by appending '.dft',
23 > as recommended in the Wiki.
24 >
25 > But when I 'startx' & then check /var/log/Xorg.0.log , I find :
26 >
27 > (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
28 > compiled for 1.19.5, module version = 1.0.0
29 > ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
30 > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
31 > (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
32 > (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
33 > compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
34 > Module class: X.Org Video Driver
35 > (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.67 Fri Jun 1 02:45:19 PDT 2018
36 > (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
37 > (--) using VT number 7
38 >
39 > I suspect that I need to re-merge some pkgs ;
40 > I have added 'nouveau' to VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf ,
41 > but it won't have an effect until a pkg is re-merged.
42 >
43 > Can anyone offer advice what to try next ?
44 >
45 > BTW the Wiki entry for 'nouveau' seems a bit out-of-date.
46
47 Maybe something in xorg.conf loads the wrong driver?
48
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