Nouveau - Jun 2008 - Nouveau on GeForce 7950GTX (NV49)

Hi everyone,

I just finished installing the current git of the nouveau driver for
my NV49 based 7950GTX.  I attempted this because I've been continually
frustrated by the constantly degrading 2D performance of X under the
nvidia and nv drivers.  Webpages that do any kind of compositing in
Mozilla will burn CPU all day long.

I'm happy to say that I'm writing because I didn't have any
problems.
Installation per the wiki was easy and sensible against the current
git of Linus's 2.6 kernel branch and the current mesa drm.  Xv is the
only other thing I might possibly care about, and it's working well
too.

The performance is great compared to the alternatives!  Thanks!


In the wiki, I noticed that the Debian installation instructions are
considered out of date.  Why is this?  Everything in them is accurate
for contemporary Debian, modulo one minor detail.

If it's merely endorsement, I'm pretty Debian saavy and willing to
vouch for their accuracy.

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37

On 6/5/08, Ross Vandegrift <ross at kallisti.us>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  I just finished installing the current git of the nouveau driver for
>  my NV49 based 7950GTX.  I attempted this because I've been continually
>  frustrated by the constantly degrading 2D performance of X under the
>  nvidia and nv drivers.  Webpages that do any kind of compositing in
>  Mozilla will burn CPU all day long.
>
>  I'm happy to say that I'm writing because I didn't have any
problems.
>  Installation per the wiki was easy and sensible against the current
>  git of Linus's 2.6 kernel branch and the current mesa drm.  Xv is the
>  only other thing I might possibly care about, and it's working well
>  too.
>
>  The performance is great compared to the alternatives!  Thanks!
>
>
>  In the wiki, I noticed that the Debian installation instructions are
>  considered out of date.  Why is this?  Everything in them is accurate
>  for contemporary Debian, modulo one minor detail.
Partially because you can use the Ubuntu packages from my PPA (with a
rebuild) to get proper packages, and partially because nouveau
packages have just been uploaded to Debian experimental.

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:11:50PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers
wrote:
> Partially because you can use the Ubuntu packages from my PPA (with a
> rebuild) to get proper packages, and partially because nouveau
> packages have just been uploaded to Debian experimental.
Ahhh - that certainly explains it.  Thanks again,
Ross