[PATCH] xfree86: add nouveau as the first automatic driver for NVIDIA hardware

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Sat Oct 29 09:40:05 PDT 2011


On 20.04.2011 14:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> From 003e32786053eb01e2a84697487aa134214f140c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:04:29 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] xfree86: add nouveau as the first automatic driver for NVIDIA hardware
> 
> Add nouveau as the first driver on linux for NVIDIA hardware when
> driver autoconfiguration is done, as it is more capable than nv.
> 
> nv is also kept in the list as it is more widely supported and because
> some old cards are not supported by nouveau.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>


Ping? The patch is still not applied, and it got no NAKs :)


> ---
>  hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c |   10 +++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
> index 447b192..8b7e298 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
> @@ -1123,7 +1123,15 @@ videoPtrToDriverList(struct pci_device *dev,
>  	    break;
>  	case 0x102b:		    driverList[0] = "mga";	break;
>  	case 0x10c8:		    driverList[0] = "neomagic"; break;
> -	case 0x10de: case 0x12d2:   driverList[0] = "nv";	break;
> +	case 0x10de: case 0x12d2:
> +	{
> +	    int idx = 0;
> +#ifdef __linux__
> +	    driverList[idx++] = "nouveau";
> +#endif
> +	    driverList[idx++] = "nv";
> +	    break;
> +	}
>  	case 0x1106:		    driverList[0] = "openchrome"; break;
>          case 0x1b36:		    driverList[0] = "qxl"; break;
>  	case 0x1163:		    driverList[0] = "rendition"; break;
> -- 1.7.3


-- 
Anssi Hannula


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