On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:22:15AM -0600, Tavian Barnes wrote: > Yeah you can. nv isn't a kernel module though, it's just an Xorg > driver, still using UMS. To use it, > > 1) Blacklist nouveau and nvidia > 2) Install xf86-video-nv > 3) Set Driver to "nv" in xorg.conf > > And, even if nv doesn't work for you, there's always xf86-video-vesa > and xf86-video-fbdev. Many thanks ! I did as you suggested. Booting the default image failed with what looked like a very long backtrace and froze the machine. But booting fallback worked, and after an mkinitcpio also the default worked. Result: rock-stable audio, and the display is a fast as it needs to be. Again many thanks, finally I can start using this system. BTW, what is the official advantage of KMS ? Having RL 3 and ttys that do not depend on a video driver seems like a good thing (TM) to me. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
