On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:55:31 +0100 > Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've added xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-drm to testing. Together with >> Xorg 7.5 this is a nice replacement for the binary crap when you don't >> need 3D stuff. 2D works well accelerated. 3D will follow later with >> gallium 3d. For more read: >> >> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ >> >> > > I have installed nouveau and everything runs fine here on my computer. > The normal work like surfing, building packages, mails, etc. works as > always. There are no problems so far. Ok, there is no 3D at the moment > but who needs 3D. ;) (I don't need 3D) > > The installation process was a little bit stony. This way worked: > > - uninstalling nvidia and nvidia-utils > - installing xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-drm > - reboot (removing the drm module doesn't work here) > - reinstalling libgl and xorg-server > > That's it. After the steps everything worked as expected. Maybe there > is an easier way for installing it (normally removing the module > should work), but it works this way. > > I will test it (and the future versions) further and I'm looking forward > for the 3D support. >
An easier way for installing it is to not have nvidia drivers in the first place :) It went smoother for me because it was a fresh install. If I usually don't need 3D support, I do need xv for video playback. This didn't work by default. I was told to run a composite manager (xcompmgr is enough) to make it work, so I enabled composite extension in xorg, ran xcompmgr, and everything worked fine. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20612
