Free nouveau display driver for nvidia-based cards Maintained by:x11@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 21 Feb 2009 02:08:38
nouveau is an X.Org Foundation and Freedesktop.org project which was
initially based on the obfuscated 2D-only free and open source "nv"
driver, aiming to develop free software drivers for NVIDIA graphics
cards, by reverse engineering NVIDIA's current proprietary drivers for
Linux.
WWW: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
Affects: users of Mesa3D libraries and x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
Author: nork@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
If you want to use Mesa3D 7.6.1 and libdrm 2.4.17 rather than 7.4.4
and 2.4.12, you must define WITHOUT_NOUVEAU global macro, at least,
enabled on graphics/libGL*, graphics/libglut, graphics/dri,
graphics/mesa-demos, and graphics/libdrm. And please give up using
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau.
At this time, I cannot enable latest Mesa3D and libdrm, because they
break xf86-video-nouveau. But old (current?) Mesa3D and libdrm do not
break any drivers.
AMD Radeon HD 2xxx/3xxx/4xxx users: If you use AMD Radeon HD [234]xxx
series, please define WITHOUT_NOUVEAU global macro. You can then use
OpenGL Hardware Accelerator feature on these series.
2009-08-01
Affects: users of x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
Author: rnoland@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
An updated libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau have been committed. These
update the API version to 0.0.14 and if you are using DRM you will need
to update your kernel patch. See pkg-message in xf86-video-nouveau for
details.
Number of commits found: 9
Commit History - (may be incomplete: see CVSWeb link above for full details)
Limited Update to Mesa3D 7.6.1 and libdrm 2.4.17.
[MEMO]
In this commit, no version changed. But if you put
'WITHOUT_NOUVEAU' on /etc/make.conf, you can use
new version of Mesa3D and libdrm.
Discussed with: rnoland on freebsd-ports/freebsd-x11.
Update to newer snapshot.
This and the updated libdrm bump the API version to 0.0.14 which requires
an updated kernel patch. See pkg-message for details.
PR: 136806
Submitted by: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
nouveau is an X.Org Foundation and Freedesktop.org project which was
initially based on the obfuscated 2D-only free and open source "nv"
driver, aiming to develop free software drivers for NVIDIA graphics
cards, by reverse engineering NVIDIA's current proprietary drivers for
Linux.
WWW: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
PR: 131276
Submitted by: Anonymous <swell dot k at gmail dot com>