When trying to make nvidia drivers sleep, and then later get nouveau to work, I got hopelessly confused about various pieces of video hardware/software and their mutual entanglements. I'd much appreciates if one of you esteemed video sages takes a few steps towards deconfusion.
The TLAs floating in this soup are AGP DRI DRM Obviously, we need a new DRM driver for nouveau as it says to compile it. This installs library libdrm.so -- who uses it? We're talking of DRM, while X refers to DRI? Then there's a whole framebuffer dimension. Various reports suggest to use vesafb-tng driver instead of the standard vesafb. Thus, it interacts with nvidia drivers -- how? I see Xorg.0.log referring to the framebuffer... And we also have nvidiafb driver. Can/should it be used with the free nv/nouveau Xorg driver? In addition, there's the vbetool utility and Option "VBERestore" -- how do those interact with framebuffer/nouveau? so here's the rest of the list: agp drivers glx drivers/libs libdrm.so -- vesafb vesafb-tng nvidiafb -- vbetool Which of these work together must be taken care of for running and accelerating nv/nouveau properly? Cheers, Alexy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
