From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:06:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343027168.2957.30.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fw8jyn43.fsf@igel.home>
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:04 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>
> > This updates the g5 defconfig to include nouveau instead of nvidiafb
> > (which works much better nowadays, in fact the latter crashes on modern
> > distros),
>
> Does it? Nvidiafb is super stable here, whereas nouveau has a lot of
> problems.
nvidiafb crashes solid here when X gets involved.
What do you mean by "lots of problems" ? I've been using nouveau for a
long time now on my two quad g5's including 3D, gnome-shell etc...
without anything more than a glitch or two on the edge of windows...
Also can you remind me what machine model and what video card variant ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-23 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1343011712.2957.5.camel__22210.4697292254$1343011753$gmane$org@pasglop>
2012-07-23 7:04 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig Andreas Schwab
2012-07-23 7:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-07-23 7:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-23 7:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-31 8:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-31 16:40 ` Andrey Gusev
2012-07-23 2:48 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21 21:37 [PATCH] [POWERPC] update g5_defconfig Will Schmidt
2007-06-21 23:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-06-22 15:24 ` Will Schmidt
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