[PATCH] autoconfig: select nouveau by default for NVIDIA GPUs

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Wed Nov 24 11:26:39 PST 2010


> From: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:09:09 +0100
> On 15 November 2010 15:10, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This patch selects nouveau by default for NVIDIA GPUs
> >> Also, don't treat DRI setup failure as an error for nouveau.
> >
> > Can you please split this patch in two parts since there are two
> > completely orthogonal changes? Also, it would be good if the commit
> > message explained why these changes are necessary. See:
> 
> here you are:
> 
> This patch default to a proper driver for nvidia cards considering that:

nouveau requires kernel mode setting, which isn't available on most
supported operating systems.  On those systems nv is still a better
choice.


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