• upgrading xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

    From Bob Tennent@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 28 19:35:46 2016
    I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with NVIDIA
    GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver version 1.0.10
    can't handle it. From the man page it seems version 1.0.11
    can. How can I upgrade that package (without upgrading the
    whole system)? (I know about the NVIDIA drivers but I'd
    prefer the nouveau driver so I won't have to rebuild the
    module whenever the kernel is upgraded.)

    Bob T.

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  • From Aragorn@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 28 22:24:37 2016
    On Monday 28 Mar 2016 21:35, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.x...

    I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with NVIDIA
    GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver version 1.0.10
    can't handle it. From the man page it seems version 1.0.11
    can. How can I upgrade that package (without upgrading the
    whole system)? (I know about the NVIDIA drivers but I'd
    prefer the nouveau driver so I won't have to rebuild the
    module whenever the kernel is upgraded.)

    A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of the upstream
    kernel sources. Also make sure you have the latest linux-firmware
    package installed.

    For what it's worth, rebuilding the proprietary nVidia driver's kernel interface module isn't something you would need to be doing by hand.
    dkms takes care of that automatically. If it detects that the video
    driver doesn't match the kernel, it'll rebuild the driver interface at
    boot time.

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  • From Bob Tennent@21:1/5 to Aragorn on Tue Mar 29 00:04:24 2016
    On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:24:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

    I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
    NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
    version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
    seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
    (without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
    NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
    won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
    upgraded.)

    A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
    the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
    latest linux-firmware package installed.

    Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried both
    kernel-lt-3.10.101 and kernel-ml-4.5.0 from ELRepo (with
    the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-firmware) but I
    can't get anything better than 1024x768. Do I need the newer
    kernel packages *and* a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?

    Bob T.

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  • From Aragorn@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 29 02:56:52 2016
    On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:04, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.x...

    On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:24:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

    I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
    NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
    version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
    seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
    (without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
    NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
    won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
    upgraded.)

    A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
    the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
    latest linux-firmware package installed.

    Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried both
    kernel-lt-3.10.101 and kernel-ml-4.5.0 from ELRepo (with
    the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-firmware) but I
    can't get anything better than 1024x768. Do I need the newer
    kernel packages *and* a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?

    Yes, the xorg-x11-drv nouveau driver should, ideally, match the nouveau
    version in the kernel, of course.

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  • From Bob Tennent@21:1/5 to Aragorn on Tue Mar 29 13:32:39 2016
    On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:56:52 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
    On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:04, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.x...

    On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:24:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

    I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
    NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
    version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
    seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
    (without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
    NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
    won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
    upgraded.)

    A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
    the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
    latest linux-firmware package installed.

    Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried both
    kernel-lt-3.10.101 and kernel-ml-4.5.0 from ELRepo (with
    the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-firmware) but I
    can't get anything better than 1024x768. Do I need the newer
    kernel packages *and* a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?

    Yes, the xorg-x11-drv nouveau driver should, ideally, match the nouveau version in the kernel, of course.

    I've given up on this. It seems not feasible to build a
    Centos6 package for a more recent xorg-x11-drv-nouveau: the
    dependencies start getting serious, such as a more recent
    glibc. I guess I'll go with the dkms-maintained nvidia
    driver. Thanks for your suggestions.

    Bob T.

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