On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:06, Snood <sn...@comcast.net> wrote: > Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. > Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. > Does that mean that going through all the machinations is no longer > necessary? > > If I tell aptitude (ncurses) to install the package it also indicates the > need to install libdrm-nouveau1, but there's no sign that it's actually > going to switch the system from nv to nouveau. > > I've looked for information, but I must be looking in all the wrong places. > All I can find is information about how to install nouveau the "old" way. > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to "Nouveau" (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikm5gibxdwxa0frr-o_yow5pg-kwgzbwkov8...@mail.gmail.com
