Armin K. wrote: > Well, as for nouveau, you can always > > a) Build it as module and blacklist it when you want to use nvidia > driver (most distros do that). > > b) Try using nouveau.disable=1 on kernel command line.
OK, those are good ideas. > As for nv, it does not have DRM driver, no 3D acceleration and it has > terrible 2D acceleration. But it seems reliable for initial tests. Yes, it's slow, but if you are only doing an xterm, it's satisfactory. > And for MesaLib, there won't be 8.1 release. 8.1 should've been released > at least 15 days ago. But instead, they decided to complete OpenGL 3.1 > and GLES 3.0 support and thus bump version so it will be MesaLib 9.0 at > the end of this month. I am already running latest 9.0 checkout from > today and it seems to work great on my Intel hardware with new 2.20.7 > driver. I am waiting for 9.0 release candidate, so I could put it in the > book in order to speed up process of upgrading other drivers and libdrm > itself. > > Mesa patches are first posted on their mailing list and thus when they > are commited, they work fine in most cases, so rc1 would be safe to use. Sounds good. We normally don't like to use -rc versions, but I can see doing it in this case. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
