How to make the nouveau driver actually to work

[kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Hal V. Engel wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:15, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:

(snip)
>
> You might have better luck getting a useful answer if you try asking this on
> the nouveau IRC channel.
>
> This driver is still in the very early stages of development and it is
> probably something close to miraculous if it works at all.  I see on their
> web site that they do have REnouveau dumps for the NV11 cards but that does
> not mean that any developer has looked at the dumps in any detail or
> implemented anything for this GPU.
>
>> From the last News update on the web site:
>
> "Work continues on the NV1x range of cards. Matc, pmdata and others did
> further tests. Currently the cards crashes when certain viewport commands are
> issued. Marcheu is quite certain that it did work, according to his notes and
> the commits to git around March, 10th. Remarks within TiNDC #15 seem to
> support that. As currently all cards up to NV3x crash when VIEWPORT_ORIGIN is
> set, a commit after that date must have broken this feature. Still matc is
> hunting the bug."
>
> The above was as of May 26.  So unless matc has found the bug in the last 9
> days you are problably SOL at this time.
>
> My understanding from looking around their web site is that the NV4x cards are
> currently the best supported.  That would be the 6000 and 7000 series of
> cards.
>
> Hal

Thanks. So what you are saying is it did work, sort of, or so it was said, 
but now it doesn't. The details are appreciated.

Theodore Kilgore