Armin K. wrote: > On 02/28/2014 06:59 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I've been working to get KDE up to speed for 7.7 and have finally >> finished the core modules. I did have a problem at first when I was >> testing. I want to document the issues. >> >> My video is NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series]. >> >> When I configure the kernel, it wants to use the nouveau kernel driver. >> When the system starts up, it was going into framebuffer mode, but it >> was giving me problems. The cursor was disappearing often. For >> instance going into vim and exiting caused it to disappear every time. >> Executing a terminal reset (echo -e \\033c) brought it back, but only >> until something else ran. >> >> When entering X, twm was OK, but KDE was giving a lot of weird hashed >> colors and the startup hung. >> >> What I found was that adding nomodeset to the kernel command line fixed >> both the text mode problem and KDE, but KDE performance is poor. >> >> My kernel configuration has >> >> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y >> CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5 >> CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3 >> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y >> >> In KDE, the resolution is 1024x768 even though the monitor is 1366x768. >> It looks like NOUVEAU is completely disabled: >> >> [ 1117.328] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa >> [ 1117.328] (--) using VT number 8 >> [ 1117.338] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled >> >> Reenabling modeset on the kernel line allows twm to come up and the >> nouveau driver appears to give normal results in twm. >> >> I don't particularly want to disable Nvidia/Nouveau >> support, but I suppose I could and use the proprietary drivers. I don't >> recall the problem in earlier kernels, but I'm not sure. >> >> If anyone has any ideas about the apparent interference between the >> nouveau drivers and KDE, please let me know. >> >> -- Bruce >> > > Lot of people got nouveau working (for some values of working) for such > basic tasks. The driver is far from complete though. > > My suggestion is to report a bug and see what it can be done. Disabling > modeset basically disables nouveau entirely and vesa drivers are used, > which isn't a good idea for KDE since it enables lots of fancy stuff > that requires some 3D. > > You could try to combine xf86-video-modesetting and llvmpipe (swrast) > drivers and see if it works for you.
Thanks. After I sent the original message, I was trying different things and after a couple of reboots it now seems to work. I don't think I changed anything though. Perhaps the reboot just cleared things up with the other drivers. I still have the problem with losing the cursor in the console, so I may report that. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
