[Nouveau] Kernel module indispensable?

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On 8/2/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> PS: I see that the avivo guys already have a Debian package (in
> >> experimental), whereas that is still missing for the nouveau driver.
> >>
> > Probably because the nouveau drivers require a (moving) git snapshot
> > of drm in order to work, which potentially breaks all sorts of
> > non-nouveau stuff (and you can't really restrict it to just nouveau
> > users).
>
> Of course, there could be a "new-drm" Debian package as well, installed with
> module-assistant.

Except that you need to replace libdrm as well (IIRC), not just the
kernel modules.
>
> > I'm currently working on making some nightly snapshot Ubuntu packages
> > using Launchpad's new PPA infrastructure.  If there's enough demand I
> > could also build debian packages from the same source.
>
> That would be helpful, yes,
>
I'll see what my sid schroot can do.