[arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

Hi, Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installe

[arch-general] Nvidia, fuck you again

With the new kernel, Nvidia drivers will not work no matter what. nvidia does not load during boot, causing the nouveau driver to be loaded instead (nouveau, try not to break for 5 seconds) and nvidia-beta doesn't start the X server and you can't switch ttys, basically breaking your system unles

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia, fuck you again

Hi, On Sunday, 5 December 2021 17:53:32 CET KSP Atlas via arch-general wrote: > With the new kernel, Nvidia drivers will not work no matter what. nvidia > does not load during boot, causing the nouveau driver to be loaded instead > (nouveau, try not to break for 5 seconds) and nvidia-beta doesn't

[arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine

Folks: Assume I've installed a bunch of packages manually on machine A. Now I want to install those same packages-- not manually-- on machine B. I can have pacman tell me what packages are installed on machine A. Now, can I take the package list from machine A and, in an automated way, have p

Re: [arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine

To generate the list, I'd propose: pacman -Qeq > list.txt -e : only explicitly installed packages (deps get installed anyways...) -q : output better suited for scripts And on the other machine, just do the obvious: pacman -S - < list.txt (Note the single '-', specifiying to read the list of

Re: [arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine

On 12/5/21 4:36 PM, René Neumann wrote: To generate the list, I'd propose: pacman -Qeq > list.txt -e : only explicitly installed packages (deps get installed anyways...) -q : output better suited for scripts And on the other machine, just do the obvious: pacman -S - < list.txt (Note the sin

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

On 12/5/21 6:43 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > > Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . > > This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia > cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . > > The plan is to support tho

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, though, for example i686? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

On 12/5/21 8:09 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: >> Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. > > Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, > though, for example i686? > Agreed, but

Re: [arch-general] outdated mediainfo and libmediainfo packages

On 21-12-05 08:08, TG Servers wrote: > Thanks that would be great. They compile just fine from upstream so it seems > there is really only a need to change the source tarballs. They're now in community-testing due to a couple of changes: * Bugfix backported from upstream[0]. * New dependency (gra