On 02/27/2010 11:29 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39:19AM -0800, walt wrote:
On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
Hey guys
Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau
> drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X.
I've attatched my xorg log. I have next to no idea what to do with the error.
Cool. I didn't know about nouveau.
Seems to be DRM that's lacking:
(EE) [drm] failed to open device
(EE) No devices detected.
I'm wondering if you built the kernel modules listed here:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM
Yeah I have all the kernel modules. The only thing I'm unsure about is, that it
refers some firmware that needs to be downloaded. This can be downloaded from
fedora, or (I think) from portage. If the firmware from portage is the same as
from the fedora site. Then I should have all necessary bits. But I'll try
building it as a module, and follow the directions about that. (I'm just glad
that the only gui applications I use are pdfÃ-readers and ÃÃÃÃÃin browsing :-))
You don't need to build it as a module. Simply download the firmware,
put it in /lib/firmware/nvidia/, and then configure the kernel like this:
In "Device Drivers->Generic Driver Options", in "Firmware blobs root
directory" enter:
/lib/firmware
In "External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary", enter:
nvidia/NAME_OF_FIRMWARE_FILE
Rebuild and install the kernel. That should do it.
