Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 19:40, Snood wrote: > On 05/12/2010 08:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: >> >> I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, >>> performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. >>> >>> I am, however, going to wait a

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Snood
On 05/12/2010 08:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. I am, however, going to wait and install nouveau the easy way, once the upgrade to xserver-xorg-c

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote: I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement, performance-wise, without causing reliability issues. I am, however, going to wait and install nouveau the easy way, once the upgrade to xserver-xorg-core becomes available in the repository. If

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-12 Thread Snood
On 05/11/2010 09:43 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. It does not appear to be in Sid or Squeeze as of this afternoon. (EST USA) yes. However, I notice that 'nv' is still in Squeeze-main contrib non-free: xserver-xorg-video-nv

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main >repository. It does not appear to be in Sid or Squeeze as of this afternoon. (EST USA) yes. However, I notice that 'nv' is still in Squeeze-main contrib non-free: xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.17-2 but nv appears to be 'broken' if

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Snood
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, > and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to > "Nouveau" > (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Good old /etc

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Snood
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-11 17:06 +0200, Snood wrote: Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. Does that mean that going through all the machinations is

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to "Nouveau" (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Good old /etc/X11/x

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-11 17:06 +0200, Snood wrote: > Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, > etc. Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main > repository. Does that mean that going through all the machinations is > no longer necessary? Yes, that does it me

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:06, Snood wrote: > Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. > Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. > Does that mean that going through all the machinations is no longer > necessary? > > If I tell apt