Install Nouveau on Slackware-13.1 for nVidia GPU owners
As Pat stated in the Changelog, Slackware-13.1 don't ship the nouveau X driver (yet).
But it's not hard to get it either. 1. Upgrade your kernel to 2.6.34 2. Get and install the driver: Code:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/ Code:
echo -e 'Section "Device"\nIdentifier "n"\nDriver "nouveau"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf Have fun ;) PS. There is no source tarball yet for this driver. If you want to upgrade: Code:
cd xf86-video-nouveau |
AFAIK, and its also mentioned on the nouveau website, the nouveau current git tree is compatible only with 2.6.34 (and higher)
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And, if you need 3d acceleration, you HAVE TO USE THE NVIDIA PROPRIETARY DRIVERS. nouveau, while a good OSS choice, and a great replacement for the standard 'nv' drivers for X11, does not do 3d
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Man, I just did what Didier was suggesting and nouveau requires a later version of Xorg than Slackware Current has. It requires 1.8 and current has 1.7.7. Too bad. I was hoping to get suspend working and I was wondering whether this driver would work with my graphics card which is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M.
I am working on a recently purchased Serval Professional, in case anyone was curious. I guess I'm stuck on the Nvidia proprietary driver for now. I'll wait until current is updated. |
The Nvidia driver is the only way to go if you want 3d accel, or even good compiz effects
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@meetscot: if you want to use Nouveau and save you the hassle of recompiling X packages, just grab Robby's ones, see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0830-a-829336/
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Didier,
Thanks, I'll give those a shot. My main objective is getting suspend to work. I don't mind the Nvidia drivers but the display doesn't come back after invoking it. It's really glitchy on this system. But I'm willing to give this a shot to try make it go and this represents a possible solution. |
nouveau and slackware current
I think I'm going to have to live with booting and shutting down for now. It's bad enough that I'm running Slackware current on a system that's critically important to my work. Installing all these extra packages doesn't seem like a wise move. I'm sure I can do it. I'm sure I can figure it out. I'm sure I could roll it back out if I needed to. But I really can't afford to experiment with a system that I use every day to earn a living.
I think I'm going to wait until these things make their way into current. I simply lack the time to trouble shoot a broken system should something unexpected happen. I see too many posts with people having black screens and issues. That's not an acceptable outcome for me on this machine for any length of time :-( I appreciate everyone working on this though. I'd normally be right there with you, but at this point I can't afford the down time. |
What about HD vids (as file as well as flash vids on YouTube)? And if I'm going to try nouveau, what about vdpau? Since my new graphics card I use it as default with MPlayer and I'm very satisfied.
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Good point. I'm in that boat too. I sometimes need to use these to watch webinars to learn about certain technologies. I hate flash and I can't wait for it to go away completely. It always has poor behavior when you least expect it.
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