[Nouveau] Gallium driver and compatibility issues

[Younes Manton]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use two nv34 cards and I would like to test / try out / use the
> Gallium driver without drawbacks.
>
> Unfortunately this has not been working since I decided to install /
> compile nouveau drivers.
>
> My system is Debian Squeeze, my kernel is 2.6.34-rc1.
>
> The problem is:
>
> Every time I load nouveau_dri.so into RAM existing applications are
> broken / unusable (Example: gnome-games).
>
> It does not matter if I overwrite existing versions of libglut*,
> libGLw*, libGLU*, libGL*, libEGL* or not - that does not make any
> difference.
> The center of the problem is nouveau_dri.so and nothing else.
>
> Could it please be possible to modify this driver file so that it does
> NOT continue to break existing applications??
>
> Would be a pleasure!
>
> Cheers
>
> Uwe

Don't install nouveau_dri.so globally. When you want to try it with a
specific application set LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/path/to/nouveau_dri.so in
your env.