[Nouveau] Question about NV18 and GBM library.

[gabriel muguerza]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Lucas Stach <dev at lynxeye.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2012, 12:34 -0300 schrieb gabriel muguerza:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a geforce 4mx 440 agp 8x, and I'm trying to use the GBM
> > library,
> > (as jbarnes in:
> > http://virtuousgeek.org/blog/index.php/jbarnes/2011/10/
> > and David Hermann in KMSCON: https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon),
> > without success.
> >
> > when I try to create a gbm_device, I get: (below the code.)
> >
> > nouveau_drm_screen_create: unknown chipset nv18
> > dri_init_screen_helper: failed to create pipe_screen
> > loaded /usr/lib/gbm/pipe_nouveau.so
> > nouveau_drm_screen_create: unknown chipset nv18
> > failed to load driver: nouveau
> >
> >
> > My question is:
> > Is this not supported by the driver?,
> > It's a GBM problem? or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> Yep, you are right, your GPU is simply too old. GBM is only supported
> with the nouveau gallium drivers, which start with the nv30 generation.
> The nouveau_vieux driver for your card does not support GBM.
>
> -- Lucas
>
>
Ok, thank you.
(and nor Wayland works, I guess).

Gabriel.
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