How to make the nouveau driver actually to work

[Alan Coopersmith]

kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:
> Very likely, this is a small problem and I do not know the right trick to 
> use to get past it:
> 
> I have followed the instructions for building the drm module and the 
> nouveau module and the nouveau X11 driver. Now, when I actually want to 
> test it, the following things occur.
> 
> Upon starting X I get a black screen with a little watch face in the 
> middle. Things never get past that point, no matter how long I wait. The 
> only thing to do is Cntrl-Alt-Backspace to kill it.

If all you ran was "X" or "Xorg", that's exactly what happens when you
run any X server by itself.   Nothing interesting happens until you run
clients, whether that be via startx, xinit, gdm, or whatever.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering