Re: [git pull] drm request 3

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Ben Skeggs wrote:
>> The F13 packages *will* work, so long as you're not bisecting back and
>> forth.
>
> How do I install just the F13 libdrm thing, without changing everything
> else? I'm willing to try. We can make it part of the 2.6.34 release notes.
>
> And if we end up having people bisecting back and forth, I will hate that
> f*cking nouveau driver even more.

I believe Dave has already explained this to you, but nobody has
mentioned it here.

What you are supposed to do is install the new nouveau driver, which
requires a new libdrm. So, just compile both libdrm, and nouveau, to a
sandbox, say /opt/new-nouveau, and then in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath "/opt/new-nouveau/lib/xorg/modules"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

That should do it. No frankensteinian F13 packaging stuff, and no mess
with the system's /usr/lib/.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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