Noveau support broken with new kernel (3.2 ?)
| Progetto: | Trisquel |
| Versione: | 6.0 |
| Componente: | Kernel/drivers |
| Categoria: | segnalazione di bug |
| Priorità: | normal |
| Assigned: | Non assegnata |
| Stato: | closed |
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I did a fresh installation with Trisquel 6.0 on a scrap box with a GeForce 5700 FX. Nouveau was working in the fresh installation (I was playing OpenArena, Xonotic and Red Eclipse on the box for testing). After some updates (I suspect the new kernel being cause of the issue) Nouveau stopped working and glxinfo only reports lvmpipe as OpenGL renderer (software OpenGL only). Enforcing Nouveau via xorg.conf results in an error message inside Xorg.0.log that the Nouveau kernel module is not loaded.
Funny enough a similar problem occurs when I install #! (Crunchbang, which is Debian-based). Enforcing Noveau via xorg.conf results in a similar error message inside Xorg.0.log. They also use a kernel 3.2 which is of course not the Linux libre-kernel.
Running the NVidia blob (version 197) under #! shows that the hardware works perfectly.
May be someone with another NVidia card and Trisquel 6.0 can test if installing a newer kernel fixes this issue.
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Seen this?
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nvidia-gt9500-toutatis#comment-33411
@Lembas: yes, I have seen it. Thanks for the info
Please consider the problem as closed. I was unable to reproduce the issue in an fresh installation of Trisquel 6.0 i686 on another system with the following hardware:
AMD E-350 board with 2x1.6 GHz
8 GB RAM
GeForce 9500GT
Trisquel x686 installed on 8GB USB Stick
3D acceleration via Novueau worked in the fresh installation as well as after the update. System had on-board GPU enabled. The issue seems to be related to my hardware. I will see if this is related to older GeForce cards if I update the system of my daughter (NForce 2 motherboard with onboard GPU plus dedicated GeForce 4400.