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

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'd agree with not spamming the user's log when something is known to
fail. For a distro, a hack to check the name of the driver and change
a failure to a warning makes sense. However, I'm not sure this
approach is appropriate for upstream. Let's see what driver developers
have to say.

--
Dan