Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

[phonnic_p]

I started this post as the other title is not really related to nouveau and was getting long this is the last entry of the older post...

PS If log files are needed PLEASE tell me exactly where to find them as asking me for info like (what was the output of **** ) only frustrates me as I'm only an end user not a programmer.

Not knowing how to get the glx/grep part to be successful, Frustrated and Impatient I did a fresh install and booted to recovery mode with Netroot & followed the guide but without sudo as I was already root http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/2009...r-work-in.html which is...

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# install the driver
# this will remove your proprietary nvidia driver, in case you have that installed.

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

# gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 3840 3840
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nouveau"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Run this to make sure it's working

glxinfo | grep direct

With an answer...
direct rendering: Yes

Following it to the letter except using nano to write the Xorg.conf file, remembering to hit return after EndSection. Thanks Snowhog
Then I used the Suggested...

glxinfo | grep direct

and got...
The program glxinfo is currently not installed. You can install it by typing

apt-get install mesa-utils

So I did that and tried again but got same...
Error: unable to open display
I then had to rename...

mv /ect/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.confA

and

startx

just to boot to default driver
Any suggestions on what's wrong?

[KeithZG]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

I'll double-post too, then; didn't see this new thread, I was only checking my replies page

To check directly if Nouveau is installed properly, you can apparently do:

glxinfo | grep Nouveau

Which according to this How-To post on the Nouveau driver over at the Ubuntu forums should spit out something like "OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.2, NV43 on Nouveau/DRI".

Other than being unable to open the display, was there anything else in the form of error messages spit out? Keep in mind that in the text console you can go up and down through the history with shift+page(up/down). The same information though should be available in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, or perhaps in a previous log; check /var/log for a log file from the nouveau driver failing for you, and post the relevant section here, perhaps? It might be helpful to see the exact error messages.

[phonnic_p]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

After a thunderstorm and power outage I began to work on installing and running the "Nouveau" driver and to my surprise

glxinfo | grep direct

gave a positive reply

direct rendering: Yes

Thanks for the Link to the http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6592005 unfortunately I got stuck on partB step 5

make

got reply

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

glxinfo | grep Nouveau

Gave nothing.
I have attached the xorg log file in .doc format...

[phonnic_p]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

Just got back from burying my Grandmother. I still need a little help please....

[sithlord48]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

did step B4
[code=step B4]./autogen.sh[/code]
give any sort of output... you may want to try instead for step B4

 sh autogen.sh

this will basicly do the same exact thing except explictly tell the system its a shell script.
then see if you can make the file.

[phonnic_p]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10


I followed you're (sithlord48) instructions and then tried,

make

but had the same response. I have attached the output to this post.
Please Help!!!

PS also followed this

I guess something went wrong during configuration (missing dependency?) or you skipped "./autogen.sh" step. Try running

./configure

inside drm directory. Then post the output in some pastebin or attach it to your post.

Anyway, keep in mind that as noted by dinxter this guide is OUTDATED. I'll have some time to update it only in February.

For now, you could just use some PPA like xorg-edgers fresh X crack (nightly builds) to install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.

I am looking @ the URL in the quote but am confused which one is for my needs.

[sithlord48]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

sorry, it was not a sure thing anyway, your problem is more then likley a missing dependency, if you can find the missing dependency you should be compiling correctly. be sure you install the -dev file that goes with the dependency. if you need abcde then you would install abcde-dev to complie something that requires it.you should also install the build-essential package if you have not done so.

according to your quote you can use the ppa that you were linked to, in order to install the driver, then change the xorg.conf file again to use it.

to add the repo run in konsole
[code=add repo]sudo add-apt-repository ppaorg-edgers/ppa[/code]
after its done,
[code=refresh package cache]sudo apt-get update[/code]
then install the newer novueau package (be sure to remove the old one first, if its still installed)

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

now it may require other packages (i'm guessing the xorg-server package on the ppa and maybe drm ).
after install you will need to edit your xorg as you did before. then restart. (or restart X by loging out and then at log in menu restart Xserver)
if all goes well then you will be using the driver.

[phonnic_p]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

Your graphic adapter is NV10 family (NV17 card to be more precise) and many things are still "Work In Progress". Don't expect things to work flawlesly. See Feature matrix for more details.

As I have already stated the guide is OUTDATED.
I guess now steps in 2D section should be sth like:

./configure --enable-nouveau-experimental-api --prefix=/usr/
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe nouveau

then just go to step 11.

Don't expect any help with 3D section until next month as currently I am pretty busy.

I followed this guide { http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6592005 } and as it states it is outdated but I wanted to try and get better resolution than 800x600. As earlier posts in this thread have indicated I keep bumping into road blocks (for me anyway) and now the Author/s of the guide is/are very busy and I really don't want to bother him/her/them with too many noob questions. I have attached an output log of my attempt with the above code, if someone is able to look at it and advise me further I would be eternally grateful.

[phonnic_p]

Re: Trouble Instaling "Nouveau" driver on Karmic9.10

Hello Everybody! (said like Dr Nick from the Simpsons...)

I have got control of my Nvidia Driver and am not requiring the Nouveau Driver now so I'll leave this post here for someone else to continue If needed/desired.
PS I've read through the F line that Linux is looking to make nouveau a part of the package sometime in 2010, so even this post may be obsolete soon as I was trying to build from scratch.
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