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>>> I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but |
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>>> compilation fails: |
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>> I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This |
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>> driver is now in the kernel itself. nouveau-drm was used before that driver |
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>> moved into the Linux kernel together with the other DRM drivers. |
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> Well, the xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16_pre20100510 ebuild says: |
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> Nouveau DRM not detected. If you want any kind of |
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> acceleration with nouveau, emerge x11-base/nouveau-drm or |
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> enable CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU in the kernel. |
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> Nouveau DRM in kernel 2.6.33 is API incompatible to |
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>>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18, please use x11-base/nouveau-drm |
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> instead. |
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> Unfortunately, the same ebuild depends on >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.19. I |
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> tried to ignore the warning but X fails with: |
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> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) |
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> (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) |
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> (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol |
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> (EE) No devices detected. |
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> |
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> The xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.15_pre20100213 ebuild only depends on |
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>>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18_pre so I installed those but I still get the |
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> errors above when trying to start X. |
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> Any ideas? Do you have nouveau working? |
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> - Grant |
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I forgot to mention that I have CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU enabled in my |
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2.6.33 kernel and nouveau-firmware is loading successfully. |
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- Grant |