Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-12 Thread Armin K.
Dana 11.9.2012 23:14, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: I'm not sure about that. My monitor on my development system is 1366x768. I don't think vesa supports that resolution. -- Bruce I don't think it's really worth adding if that's the only feature that it supports over VESA. But as I already

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Dana 11.9.2012 23:14, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: I'm not sure about that. My monitor on my development system is 1366x768. I don't think vesa supports that resolution. -- Bruce I don't think it's really worth adding if that's the only feature that it supports over

[blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
When the xorg driver section was redone, the nv driver was omitted. The last time I tried the Nouveau driver, it didn't work very well for me. The nv driver still seems to be maintained. The most recent version is 2.1.20 dated July 17. Should the nv driver be added? -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-11 Thread Armin K.
Dana 11.9.2012 19:29, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: When the xorg driver section was redone, the nv driver was omitted. The last time I tried the Nouveau driver, it didn't work very well for me. The nv driver still seems to be maintained. The most recent version is 2.1.20 dated July 17. Should

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-11 Thread Armin K.
Dana 11.9.2012 19:56, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: OK, I built vesa, fbdev, and nv. I'm going to hold off nouveau for now. The problem is that if I use nouveau, I need to rebuild the kernel if I want to go to the proprietary drivers. IIRC, that's not needed for nv. That said, I see you have

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg nv driver

2012-09-11 Thread Armin K.
Dana 11.9.2012 20:40, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: As for nv, it does not have DRM driver, no 3D acceleration and it has terrible 2D acceleration. But it seems reliable for initial tests. Yes, it's slow, but if you are only doing an xterm, it's satisfactory. That doesn't make it any better than