Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-21 Thread Bastien Dejean
LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT: > What is the difference between fbdev and vesa x driver? man vesa man fbdev > If my system is booting fine with the fb video driver for the > vconsole, should I be better with the X fbdev video driver? On the MBA, I haven't noticed any performance difference between

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-21 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:07 AM, LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT < olivier.pis.langl...@transport.alstom.com> wrote: > > > > Daniel Bryan: > > > > > Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: > > > > > > - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird > > > artifacts, mouse doesn't work,

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > Daniel Bryan: > > > Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: > > > > - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird > > artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. > > I had the same problem and found the following solution: > > - Install xf86-video-fbdev >

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread Bastien Dejean
Daniel Bryan: > Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: > > - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird > artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. I had the same problem and found the following solution: - Install xf86-video-fbdev - Create a new fil

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread Dave Reisner
On Dec 20, 2012 6:27 AM, "Daniel Bryan" wrote: > > First of all, I'm sorry if the general discussion list isn't for questions > like this. I wasn't sure how to figure out what's appropriate. > > Per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154496, I've had a real > ordeal trying to get video wor

[arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Bryan
First of all, I'm sorry if the general discussion list isn't for questions like this. I wasn't sure how to figure out what's appropriate. Per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154496, I've had a real ordeal trying to get video working on Arch on a repurposed late 2010 Macbook Air. I've ne