[Nouveau] Driver Problem with 7150M

[Stephane Marchesin]

On 4/4/08, Richi Plana <richip at richip.dhs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 05:01 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>  > On 4/4/08, Richi Plana <richip at richip.dhs.org> wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > >  I tried using the nouveau driver that comes latest with Fedora Rawhide
>  > >  (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.10-1.20080311git460cb26) on my HP Pavilion
>  > >  dv2000 laptop with a GeForce 7150M (PCI 10de:0531) but couldn't even get
>  > >  the server up. The server spit out the following log. Could someone tell
>  > >  me how to get things working?
>  >
>  > Sure, by using git instead of an old snapshot.
>
>
> That did the trick!
>
>  I've a question (that's actually more of a git question). I've used svn
>  and cvs before and git not at all. In nouveau git, what is "460bc26" and
>  how can I list other valid "tree-ish" options to pass to git-archive?

I think "460bc26" is the beggining of the hash number of the head
commit used for that release. In git each commit has a unique hash
number, so this identifies the version accurately.

The "tree-ish" can be a tag or one of these hashes. I usually use gitk
to look at those.

Stephane