Re: X and GeForce6600

On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 14:16 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Odd... my G5's using nouveau just fine with a 6600 as well.
> 
> Have you tried recent kernels? On my G5 when booting with a kernel later
> than ec9b3a9 (drm/nouveau/i2c: resume use of i2c-algo-bit, rather than
> custom stack) it just powers off during boot.  There is now an
> undocumented option CONFIG_NOUVEAU_I2C_INTERNAL that reverts back to the
> state before ec9b3a9, which allows me to boot through to X, but it
> doesn't really work well.  The nv driver is still miles ahead.

I'll have a look when I get to the office. I'm using debian sid and the
kernel might be a couple of releases back, but overall it's working
pretty well, gnome3 shell & all.

Cheers,
Ben.


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