Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-08 Thread Gnu Turd
I installed squeeze on a PowerBook G4 and was unhappy with the performance of the nv driver trying to use Blender & for graphics in general. :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) I tried setting up a xorg.conf and using nouveau, but couldn't

Re: Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-08 Thread Gnu Turd
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Gnu Turd  wrote: > >> it even worth the effort?  Will this machine still be pokey, even with >> nouveau installed? > > I don't have any experience with that particular card & driver.

Re: Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-09 Thread Gnu Turd
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Get inspiration for xorg.conf here: > http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-file-powerbook-g415-12-lucid-lynx I appreciate the suggestion, Jeroen. Unfortunately that is precisely the xorg.conf that I tried in vain with Debian, not quite ge

Re: Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-09 Thread Gnu Turd
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: > Have you checked in on the nouveau mailing list or IRC channel? I have ATI > chipsets in most all of my legacy Mac hardware so I haven't had any need for > Nvidia drivers. I had the same question about Ubuntu for PPC but there may be > a bett

Re: Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-11 Thread Gnu Turd
2010/10/11 Michel Dänzer > On Fre, 2010-10-08 at 17:08 -0700, Gnu Turd wrote: > > I installed squeeze on a PowerBook G4 and was unhappy with the > > performance of the nv driver trying to use Blender & for graphics in > > general. > > > > :00:1