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From: Mark Neidorff on 19 Feb 2010 08:30
Just "for your information" on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards.

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html

enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting
information),

Mark


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From: Mark on 19 Feb 2010 13:10
>On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Neidorff <mark(a)neidorff.com> wrote:

> >Just "for your information" on an open source driver for NVIDIA video
> cards.
> >
> >http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html<http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html>
>

[snip]

Thanks for the link, very interesting and promising. I inherited 2 Dell
laptops and installed Lenny, both have nvidia cards. Even after installing
the nvidia drivers, suspend/resume doesn't work (well, suspend works but
resume doesn't). I had researched thoroughly a while ago and pretty much
gave up on trying to get it to work after seeing so many posts on websites
where others couldn't get it to work either. This one in particular has
almost my identical hardware
http://eclectic.freeshell.org/debian-8600.html#Suspend_Resume.

Sorry if this topic has been beaten to death already, I've been on this list
about a year and haven't seen too much chatter about it in that time.

Mark
From: Andrei Popescu on 20 Feb 2010 06:50
On Fri,19.Feb.10, 08:28:05, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Just "for your information" on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards.
>
> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html
>
> enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting
> information),

$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 416
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x(a)lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.0.10~git+20090701+c0bf670-1
Replaces: nvidia-glx, xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35)
Provides: xserver-xorg-video-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11+git+20090630+de1ed01), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.5.99.901), linux-nouveau-modules
Conflicts: nvidia-glx
Filename: pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.10~git+20090701+c0bf670-1_amd64.deb
Size: 187212
MD5sum: 20c53ab4d34a747d38bbd72cc908ad4e
SHA1: e5ed3535ce5dc6c1419355aa3e2b241ea75084f4
SHA256: 977ca0425cd64ef781cf8691d1fae0812c2acc2693dfe6b037882bc8593bc9fc
Description: X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental)
This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description)
provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT, GeForce, and Quadro cards.
.
Note that these drivers are INCOMPLETE, and are only really useful for testing
at this point. People needing a stable driver should use the "nv" driver
instead. Although the upstream nouveau drivers provide some 3D support, these
packages do not include the necessary files. Users requiring 3D support should
use the non-free "nvidia" driver.
.
This package is built from the FreeDesktop.org xf86-video-nouveau driver.
.
Users wishing to install these drivers should first use module-assistant to
build the drm kernel modules (via ``module-assistant auto-install drm'').
Homepage: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Regards,
Andrei
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From: Sven Joachim on 20 Feb 2010 09:00
On 2010-02-20 12:43 +0100, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Fri,19.Feb.10, 08:28:05, Mark Neidorff wrote:
>> Just "for your information" on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards.
>>
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html
>>
>> enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting
>> information),
>
> $ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

You are aware that this package is not even installable?

> Version: 1:0.0.10~git+20090701+c0bf670-1

More than seven months old, an eternity for such a fast moving target as
nouveau.

> Provides: xserver-xorg-video-5
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
,----
| % apt-cache show xserver-xorg-core | grep ^Conflicts | cut -d , -f 1,14
| Conflicts: xserver-common (<< 7), xserver-xorg-video-5
`---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

:-(

Sven


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From: Andrei Popescu on 20 Feb 2010 12:50
On Sat,20.Feb.10, 14:55:32, Sven Joachim wrote:

> > $ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> You are aware that this package is not even installable?

I only noticed it was not installable together with nvidia-glx which
makes it quite difficult for me to test it.

> > Version: 1:0.0.10~git+20090701+c0bf670-1
>
> More than seven months old, an eternity for such a fast moving target as
> nouveau.

Too bad, I am really interested in testing it. Unfortunately I do need
3D often enough so anything more than editing xorg.conf each time I need
it would be quite a hassle.

Regards,
Andrei
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