2009-03-26 - Fedora Test Day - Nouveau graphics driver

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 25 19:27:16 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:55 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just did the test and at least the live cd boots into X, that's a lot
> more than my last test of nouveau.
> 
> But a few questions arised:
> 
> - how can I install mplayer into that live system to test XV? shouldn't
> yum install mplayer work? Do I have to manually set up rawhide repos?

Do a shift-refresh on that page. I've reworked the test case not to use
mplayer, since it's not actually available in the official repos (it's
in rpmfusion). The updated version of the test case uses totem.

this sucks, because mplayer is great - it gives very verbose output on
what the hell it's doing, which no other video player does. Ah well.

> - what is the way to restart X on that livecd? Just killing the xserver
> did not work and someone did deactivate CTRL - ALT - BACKSPACE (grml, as
> if people would hit that combo accidentally...)

You can actually follow the test case - you can edit the boot options
for the live CD as described in the test case. Other than that,
ctrl-alt-f2, log in as root, kill the Xorg process, run startx.

> - I did not see any KMS stuff (native solution, playmouth gfx) should I?

No - it's not enabled by default. If you want to test it, you can enable
it: set 'nouveau.modeset=1' as a kernel parameter. I might throw
together a test case for this.
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