[Nouveau] Gallium driver and compatibility issues

[Uwe Bugla]

Am Donnerstag, den 11.03.2010, 13:23 -0500 schrieb 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.

Thanks. Sounds plausible.

But:
1. Udev decides which driver is being loaded into memory at boot time.
2. I was asking for a _long term_ solution, not for a quick short term
workaround without changing the driver itself.

Cheers