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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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.