[PATCH] autoconfig: select nouveau by default for NVIDIA GPUs

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 16 November 2010 00:09, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This patch selects nouveau by default for NVIDIA GPUs
>>> Also, don't treat DRI setup failure as an error for nouveau.
>>
>> Can you please split this patch in two parts since there are two
>> completely orthogonal changes? Also, it would be good if the commit
>> message explained why these changes are necessary. See:

(...)

> here you are:
>
> This patch default to a proper driver for nvidia cards considering that:

And this patch make xorg not treat DRI setup failure as an error for nouveau :

nouveau 3D support is quite new (needs latest mesa, new enough kernel with
the proper build options).
What's more, the DRM interface got broken several times
(see http://lwn.net/Articles/377953/)

So treat faillure to set up DRI for nouveau gracefully.
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