On 2023-03-23 13:38:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > It could be the exhibition of ignorance represented by the above > quote leads triagers and developers to ignore many problem reports. > There is no such thing as "the nouveau driver" in Debian:
This is not true. From old Xorg logs: [194415.365] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date: Fri Apr 21 14:41:17 2017 -0400 [194415.365] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : > 2-X requires *a* display driver, which in the case of NVidia GPUs depends on > KMS > functionality provided by a nouveau kernel device driver for optimal > performance. > One such display driver is named nouveau, and is provided by > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. The Xorg server .deb provides an alternative > driver > named modesetting. The modesetting driver: > > A-is a newer display driver technology; > B-does not require reverse-engineering; > C-is the upstream default display driver; > D-supports all GPUs for which a kernel device driver providing KMS is > available; > E-is automatically employed when applicable xserver-xorg-video-* is not > installed. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/DebianPackages.html recommends xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. However, it seems that a "modesetting" module is loaded by default: [685925.554] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [685925.554] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so [685925.554] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [685925.554] compiled for 1.18.1, module version = 1.18.1 [685925.554] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [685925.554] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0 [...] [685925.555] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms This is from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814902 (a different machine, but basically with the same config). It seems that I haven't kept any Xorg log for the concerned machine. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
