From: Andrey Gusev <ronne@list.ru>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:40:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50180A64.8060400@list.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343027168.2957.30.camel@pasglop>
23.07.2012 11:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt пишет:
> 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.
>
>
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nouveau doesn't work on my machine. There is a bug in Xorg project
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21273 It need to make
a workaround for correct initialization of video card. Unfortunately,
I am not skilled enough for it.
Nvidiafb worked fine for me, but I am not using it.
Andrey
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2012-07-23 7:04 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig Andreas Schwab
2012-07-23 7:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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 [this message]
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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