13 Nov
2019
13 Nov
'19
9:05 p.m.
On Wednesday 13 November 2019 21:13:32 Michael wrote:
> > - Get a working system with nouveau.
> Or not. Do not confuse the nouveau kernel driver with the nouveau DDX (X
> and Wayland) driver. The nouveau kernel driver provides the kernel mode
> setting functionality that competent DDXes depend on.
> Xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is a reverse-engineered, *optional*, DDX built
> only for NVidia GPUs. The default DDX is newer technology, automatically
> used when: 1-it supports any non-ancient (AMD or Intel or NVidia) GPU;
> 2-KMS is not disabled; and 3-no optional DDX is installed. It can also be
> explicitly configured to be used even though an applicable optional DDX is
> available. It's provided by the xserver-org package itself. When in use,
> modeset(0) will normally be found copiously in Xorg.0.log.
> The modesetting DDX is in use here by all the NVidia GPUs I have that are
> new enough for it to support, those newer than approximately 10-12 years
> of age.
Old mainframe guys like myself probably shouldn't
be giving GPU advice ;)
It worked perfectly with Stretch, nvidia non free and xserver-xorg,
and with Buster, completely broken.
I tried, nvidia free and non-free, no result.
I cannot spend hours and hours to repair...
André