On Friday 05 December 2014 17:01:56 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 19:31:28 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > > ... > > (EE) [drm] failed to open device > > See > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting/#index1h3 > > From what I've read so far, I'd just bet that the updated kernel drm > mismatches the XOrg driver. > > > I reconfigured, built and installed a 3.16.0 kernel with the generic > > fbdev > > added to the mix. > Again: this is NOT the kernel module, but the xorg driver. > You need to update XOrg (also for a new nouveau driver) or (actually) > the entire distro. > > Building XOrg is far less time consuming than back then, when X11 came > as a blob, but it requires you to know what you need and also (likely) > to update some toolchain elements. > > I deleted most of the conversation, but since this is apparently not a > production system: is there anything holding you back from just > upgrading the distro version (resp. install a brand new one in > parallel) to get a state-of-the-art SW stack? > > Cheers, > Thomas
Other than the fact that even the LinuxCNC simulator would probably die, and that would put me standing up at a machines keyboard in a somewhat poorly heated shop building in the back yard. Since I'm 80yo and my back is killing me after a half an hour of that, not much else. But that wouldn't stop me from making the try at building a new X if its .configure script as as smart as most of the newer stuff seems to be. Is it on git, or do I have to dl a tarball? Thanks Thomas. 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
