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upgrading xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
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Bob Tennent
2016-03-28 19:35:46 UTC
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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.
Aragorn
2016-03-28 20:24:37 UTC
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On Monday 28 Mar 2016 21:35, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to
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Post by Bob Tennent
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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Bob Tennent
2016-03-29 00:04:24 UTC
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Post by Bob Tennent
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.
Aragorn
2016-03-29 00:56:52 UTC
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On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:04, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to
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Post by Aragorn
Post by Bob Tennent
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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Bob Tennent
2016-03-29 13:32:39 UTC
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On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:04, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to
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Post by Bob Tennent
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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