On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:21:27 Graham Murray wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] > > (not completely sure about the versions) > > > > Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm > > > > Hopefully it will be *very* temporary > > It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau > driver.
That's good news. The next question is the horrible one: does nouveau actually work* yet? I had to switch back to nvidia proprietary as mouveau had every imaginable feature I want (especially how to deal with two monitors in a sane way) and the features functioned correctly, excep that the whole package did not work. *work: By this I mean work to be synonymous with "perform at adequate speed". 500ms lag on getting a 2D desktop to do something is not defined as "perform" The engineer in me says this is really just a matter of finding the correct 4 bits to flip in the right register at the right time, so I have high hope for nouveau. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
