-nouveau now set as the default driver for Nvidia hardware

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Tue Feb 23 18:00:09 GMT 2010


TheMuso has sent in a patch to disable nouveau on PPC, which I'll try to
get in for a3.  Pity it doesn't work, I'd encourage those with access to
ppc hardware to continue testing nouveau independently to resolve the
issues, since we're not going to be putting energy into -nv going
forward.


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:46:27AM +0100, Aur??lien Naldi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > After several months working on testing and integration, last night we
> > officially transitioned from -nv to -nouveau. ??If you own nvidia
> > hardware and are not using the proprietary drivers, you will be affected
> > by this change.
> [...]
> > To achieve this, we are using nouveau code backported from the 2.6.33
> > kernel via the linux-backports-modules package, as the 2.6.32 did not
> > have usable nouveau KMS code. ??We are still evaluating and experimenting
> > with how best to integrate and support this code, so may make some
> > further adjustments in coming weeks.
> [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> and first congrats, it looks like great news!
> Unfortunately for me, my only system with a nvidia graphic card is a
> PPC (G5 macpro) and the linux-backport module package is not available
> for PPC. I used it on another old PC a while ago (on karmic) with much
> better results than the nv driver and thus hope to get better 2D
> performance (even web browsers feel slow right now) on the PPC system
> I'm currently using.
> I know it isn't a supported arch anymore so I tried grabbing the
> source and building it, which fails as the compile scripts are
> tailored for supported-archs-kernels only. The package
> nouveau-kernel-source doesn't build either due to some kernel API
> change, after small code update (sorry, I lost the bug number here) it
> does compile but shows a colorful and unusable screen. This version is
> pretty old and the same bug reports mentions it will probably be
> updated soon.
> 
> As nouveau is also supposed to work on PPC, I'd like to know if the
> upcoming changes will enable easy installation or at least compilation
> on this architecture. If I missed some explanation on how to do that,
> please update my pointers ;)
> 
> Best regards.
> 
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