Hi all, The drive towards stabilising Nouveau for a rocking Lucid LTS release has resulted in large changes to the packaging stack. Nouveau's kernel module is now in the main kernel package, which fixes most of the problems people have previously reported. If you have previously tested nouveau and found your VTs didn't work, or that plymouth splash didn't work, or that you just got no display at all please test again with the 2.6.32-16 kernel. If you've updated in the last day, you should already have this kernel installed. You can check which kernel you are running by running “uname -r” from a terminal - it should print something like “2.6.32-16-generic”. The important bit is 2.6.32-16.
This work means that nouveau now has a lack of good bugs reported against it. I'm hoping that the fine testers of Ubuntu can rectify this! If you've got an nvidia graphics card, please try disabling the restricted drivers and testing nouveau for a day. Just using your computer with the nouveau drivers and reporting any problems you encounter will be useful, but if you want to test more systematically, there's a list[1] of things to check on the wiki. Filing a good bug is as simple as running “ubuntu-bug xorg” and describing the problem you see, and how you can trigger it, in the report. The apport hooks will magically attach all the relevant logs for you. If you run into a bug and want to invest some extra effort to help get it fixed, after reporting the bug you can test with a newer version of Nouveau. These packages are available in the xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA. Further instructions are on the wiki[2]. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let's go find some bugs! [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation#upstreamtesting
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