NVIDIA / nouveau thread branch
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Fri Nov 27 15:57:50 UTC 2009
On Nov 25, 2009, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> Uh? If the nouveau kernel module is loaded, the nvidia kernel module
> refuses to load, complaining that another module is in control of the
> hardware.
And even the “nv” driver fails to work, with a similar complaint.
I had to blacklist nouveau on an ancient (8YO) notebook, because with
nouveau X wouldn't work on it. The nouveau X driver failed in some way
I can't remember, and nv complained about the hardware being controlled
by another driver already.
On the happier side, the deblobbed nouveau driver in Linux-libre
Freed-ora builds works nicely on another (5YO IIRC) notebook, so it can
now change resolutions and control independently its own LCD and the TV
it's connected to through a VGA cord. At last! :-)
Now if only we managed to reverse engineer (or get sources for) those
blobs allegedly released under GPLv2, we'd have another hardware
supplier with Free 3D acceleration!
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