On Wednesday 13 November 2019 01:49:55 pm Felix Miata wrote: > Michael composed on 2019-11-13 08:48 (UTC-0600): > > From personal experience with MX Linux (non-systemd Debian 9 stretch), I > > concur with Nik and Nick (and I'll add nvidia is a twitchy little > > asshat). > > > > - 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. Thank you Felix! Old mainframe guys like myself probably shouldn't be giving GPU advice ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
