Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2024-07-18 17:51 (UTC):
> So just use Nouveau already on a ~15 year old laptop.
FTR, technically not a good recommendation. Nouveau has multiple meanings.
Employing each individual meaning generally is suboptimal, as it includes the
"reverse-engineered, experimental" nouveau DDX display driver from the .deb
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, when the default DIX display driver, modesetting,
which is newer technology (though over a decade old), and neither
reverse-engineered nor experimental, would otherwise be employed.
To use the modesetting DIX display driver, the nouveau kernel module is
required.
libdrm-nouveau2 is normally a must as well, as is libgl1-mesa-dri, which
provides
nouveau_dri.so.
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