Bug 35416

Summary: nouveau as xorg default
Product: xorg Reporter: Thomas Schneider <maxmusterm>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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nouveau patch for xorg none

Description Thomas Schneider 2011-03-18 05:24:15 UTC 
Created attachment 44576 [details] [review]
nouveau patch for xorg

As for the newest kernel versions all have by default the nouveau/drm kodule with kms support I would propose to set the nouveau driver as well as standard in xorg.
The automatic detection tries to load the best driver and is hardcoded into the xorg-server so I think it would be wise to change nv to nouveau (nv is not supported/maintained by nvidia anymore and the range of cards supported and even the features are inferior to the nouveau driver).

Enclosed is the patch for xorg.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2011-03-18 09:24:52 UTC 
Xorg server patches must be submitted to xorg-devel for review before applying:
  http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
  http://wiki.x.org/wiki/XServer#DevelopmentProcess

Xorg server policy changes must be discussed on xorg-devel to reach consensus
before adopting.

Sticking this in bugzilla and not on the list basically leaves it to be considered at some unknown future date when someone decides to send it on to 
the list.

Of course, when this is sent to the list it will be NAK'ed in it's current
form, as nouveau is not available on all kernels supported by Xorg.
(Hint: #ifdef linux)
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2018-05-15 18:42:29 UTC 
We know about nouveau now.
Comment 3 Thomas Schneider 2018-05-16 11:32:21 UTC 
I was only 7 years too early thank you for closing it

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