F7T4 -- I tried the Nouveau driver from the LiveCD and hit major problems

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue May 15 16:06:59 UTC 2007


On 15/05/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:53 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 10:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > Could certainly deliver it as a different binary RPM.  This is like
> > > five minutes of work, if we think it's worth doing.
> >
> > Yes, PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE. :-) I can then rebuild daily snapshots of
> > nouveau ddx automatically without playing about with the nv RPM.
>
> This is done now as of 2.0.2-2.
>
> BIG FREAKING WARNING: If you're using nouveau, and for some reason
> decide to upgrade just xorg-x11-drv-nv, you will lose your driver.
> Plain yum upgrade should work though, as xorg-x11-drivers has been
> updated to depend on xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.

Very cool. Thanks for doing this.

Richard.




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