>On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:28:25 -0500 >Alain Toussaint <alain.toussa...@securivm.ca> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I still haven't done chapter 6 of the book but in > preparation, I tried to test a git kernel (v3.3.0-rc2) along with the > git sources of the nouveau driver for my nvidia card according to the > instructions there: > > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM (section 1.2 in > particular). > > I also went ahead installing the latest version of the xorg-server > software (version 1.11.4), xf86-video-nouveau (git sources from an > hour ago) and the result is that the xorg-server sometime spin in an > infinite loop after anything from startup to 35 minutes after having > started up (listening to House,MD dvd's prove to be a good test for > the stability of the X server). > > the error occur at random and isn't found in my latest log (cmdline: > startx &>nouveau.log.txt) but the rest of the kernel run fine because > i press the power button normally (i.e. not holding it for 4 seconds) > and the kernel initiate an acpi shutdown event on lockup. > > for the next test, I will try a stock 3.3.0-rc2 kernel (sans the > nouveau git source) and report back. this will happen either tomorrow > or during next week-end. > > Alain >
And a different experience from me: works fine. Specifically: vanilla linux 3.2.0, kernel side of the nouveau driver is in [device drivers]->[staging drivers] (you first need to enable experimental features in the menuconfig); Mesa-7.11 holds the actual Gallium 3d implementation, still a work in progress but works, mostly; Mesa requires libdrm (I use 2.4.26) which must be configured with --enable-nouveau-experimental-api; and finally the appropriate video driver for X server, xf86-video-nouveau. X server is version 1.11.1. Cue this discussion being booted to blfs-dev for being off-topic. The above setup has not generated any instability that I have been able to note. I was even able to hook it up with wine and play some 3D games, but with mixed results. Some (older) work, some (newer) don't. -- Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
