On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > using the nouveau driver. From a 3.16.0 kernel tree I assume. > > Doesn't seem so. > > Posted log segment says, that you're trying to load nv, then unload it > and ultimately seem to be running fbdev (what causes the maaaany error > messages) > > This is not about the kernel module, but the X11 driver. > You'll need xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and libdrm-nouveau1, but rather > not from 2010. > > Cheers, > Thomas
And how does one go about that? Build & install Xorg from scratch? I did that once about a decade & change back, on an old Red Hat install, 6.1 IIRC. It worked, but was about a 2 hour build on that old 400 mhz K6- II box with 320 megs of memory. :) git URL? > PS: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/ is the very first Thanks Thomas, but what is the magic configure --with-?????? that will get it to build the docs? > goggle result here. _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
