[ubuntu-x] Call for testing: nouveau open-source nvidia driver

[Bryce Harrington]

I have the -10 kernel installed as a fallback in case changes to -11
bork the system.  You might be able to find an older kernel in a ppa.

Anyway, you can install multiple kernels and select between them at boot
time via the grub (hold down the left shift key during boot to see grub.)

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:44:51PM +0100, Kjell Le wrote:
> With the latest kernel module backport my system is unbootable. The
> problem is that I cannot report the bug to launchpad either...
> Is there a way to install two kernel one with the backport and the
> other without so it gets easier to report?
> 
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> kl
> 
> On 3 February 2010 19:07, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:05:41AM -0800, Martin Pitt wrote:
> >> Hello Christopher,
> >>
> >> Christopher James Halse Rogers [2010-02-03 21:50 +1100]:
> >> > We're aiming to ship Nouveau as the default driver for nVidia cards in
> >> > Lucid as a better nv. ??Towards this end there are now packages ready
> >> > for wider testing in the xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA[1].
> >>
> >> That's great to hear! Many thanks for your efforts there.
> >>
> >> > You should not expect to work:
> >> > ??* The nvidia binary drivers. ??The nouveau kernel module will bind to
> >> > the hardware and there is no mechanism for handing off to nvidia
> >> > kernel module.
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to integrate that into the alternatives system
> >> that Alberto built for nv vs. the various nvidia binary driver
> >> versions? They also ship a kernel module which binds the device, after
> >> all.
> >
> > That is the plan. ??Alberto is planning on hacking on this through the
> > week. ??We've got a desktop box set up here at the sprint with nvidia hw,
> > and will be testing moving between nouveau and nvidia.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryce
> >
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