FS#24406 - patch xserver to use nouveau by default instead of nv

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by taylorchu (taylorchu) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 20:38 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 30 May 2011, 08:22 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
nv driver was deprecated a long time ago, and almost all linux distro starts to move to nouveau.
however, xserver still sets to nv by default.

I know that arch provides vanilla packages, but it seems that xorg upstream is not going to patch it in one or two years. the main reason is that nouveau does not work on BSDs and Solaris systems. Since archlinux is a linux only distro that aims for bleeding edge, we should patch it this time.

Additional info:
* xorg-xserver is the package that needs to be patched
* gentoo repository has the patch which is about 4-5 lines.


Steps to reproduce:
* install xf86-video-nouveau
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 30 May 2011, 08:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 20:46 GMT
this sounds like a duplicate of  FS#23319 
Comment by taylorchu (taylorchu) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 21:21 GMT
yes, but currently upsteam does not want to add the patch.
so it seems like we have to do it ourselves.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 22:08 GMT
IMHO we should patch xorg-server to use nouveau by default if it's installed, with a fallback to nv and nvidia. That way we can remove that horrible nvidia config scriptlet also.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 23:37 GMT
I highly recommend to make this change, but (of course) keep nv as fallback, since all other distributions do that:

Ubuntu: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/xorg-server/oneiric/view/head:/debian/patches/15-nouveau.diff
Fedora: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=xorg-x11-server.git;a=blob;f=xserver-1.6.1-nouveau.patch
Debian: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/15-nouveau.diff
openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=driver-autoconfig.diff&package=xorg-x11-server&project=X11%3AXOrg
Gentoo: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-server/files/xorg-server-1.9-nouveau-default.patch?view=markup
Frugalware: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;f=source/x11/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.9-nouveau-default.patch

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