HOWTO: Nouveau - Open source 3d drivers for nvidia graphic cards

[TSJason]

In doing so everything went great till step 5 for 2D

make

What was the output of your ./autogen.sh?

[Phonic_P]

What was the output of your ./autogen.sh?

Being a noob where would I find a log of that particular output?

[Hakimio]

Hi and thanks for this guide.
I have been having issues with resolution on ALL Ubuntu & Kubuntu with the Nvidia driver (96) and decided to give Nouveau a go. I had received advice from the kubuntu forum http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3109198.0 and was advised to check this guide.
In doing so everything went great till step 5 for 2D

make

and got
What should I do?

I guess something went wrong during configuration (missing dependency?) or you skipped "./autogen.sh" step. Try running

./configure

inside drm directory. Then post the output in some pastebin or attach it to your post.

Anyway, keep in mind that as noted by dinxter this guide is OUTDATED. I'll have some time to update it only in February.

For now, you could just use some PPA like xorg-edgers fresh X crack (nightly builds) to install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.

[Phonic_P]

Thanks for your advice, I tried again with the

sh autogen.sh

in drm directory, as advised by sithlord48 from kubuntu forum. As well I have tried the ./configure angle you just suggested. Attached is the output from my attempts.

[Hakimio]

Thanks for your advice, I tried again with the

sh autogen.sh

in drm directory, as advised by sithlord48 from kubuntu forum. As well I have tried the ./configure angle you just suggested. Attached is the output from my attempts.

Why are you running everything as root?
Do you have pkg-config installed?

pkg-config --version

Do you have pkg.m4 in /usr/share/aclocal ?

ls /usr/share/aclocal | grep pkg

[Phonic_P]

Why are you running everything as root?
Do you have pkg-config installed?

pkg-config --version

Do you have pkg.m4 in /usr/share/aclocal ?

ls /usr/share/aclocal | grep pkg

I was running in root as I thought it might save time typing my password.
No pkg-config was not installed but I did install it and checked with

ls /usr/share/aclocal | grep pkg

which replied pkg.m4
I also manualy checked if it was in /usr/share/aclocal, which it was.
I then started again and it went fine till

7. Enter linux-core directory and compile kernel modules

cd linux-core ; make nouveau.o

This is the reply

bash: cd: linux-core: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `nouveau.o'.  Stop.

I have attached the output from my terminal/konsole session.
PS: Will it matter that I'm trying to install on both ubuntu & kubuntu?
ALSO: I followed the advice from

For now, you could just use some PPA like xorg-edgers fresh X crack (nightly builds) to install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.

and added their PPA to my systems software sources, only to discover they were already installed. but when I wrote an xorg.conf file suggested @ http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/2009...r-work-in.html my xserver blew a gasket and would not start nor when I tried to log in via recovery mode. So I reinstalled the OS again.

[Hakimio]

I was running in root as I thought it might save time typing my password.

That's a bad idea. Instead you could just increase timeout time.

I then started again and it went fine till This is the reply

bash: cd: linux-core: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `nouveau.o'.  Stop.

I have attached the output from my terminal/konsole session.

It seems --enable-nouveau-experimental-api switch is now required. Try running:

./configure --enable-nouveau-experimental-api --prefix=/usr/

then "make" and "sudo make install".

PS: Will it matter that I'm trying to install on both ubuntu & kubuntu?

No, it doesn't matter.

ALSO: I followed the advice from and added their PPA to my systems software sources, only to discover they were already installed. but when I wrote an xorg.conf file suggested @ http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/2009...r-work-in.html my xserver blew a gasket and would not start nor when I tried to log in via recovery mode. So I reinstalled the OS again.

• What VGA do you have? Is it supported (see the tutorial's notes section)?
• You don't have to edit screen section, only device in xorg.conf .
  If sth goes wrong when starting X server at least save a copy of Xorg.0.log.
• Instead of reinstalling the system you could have just used ubuntu live cd to edit xorg.conf or boot to CLI ("Recovery mode" (?) or sth like that in the grub menu ) and used nano editor which is pretty easy to use too.

[Phonic_P]

• What VGA do you have? Is it supported (see the tutorial's notes section)?
• You don't have to edit screen section, only device in xorg.conf .
  If sth goes wrong when starting X server at least save a copy of Xorg.0.log.
• Instead of reinstalling the system you could have just used ubuntu live cd to edit xorg.conf or boot to CLI ("Recovery mode" (?) or sth like that in the grub menu ) and used nano editor which is pretty easy to use too.

AMD Athlon 64 CPU, 1G RAM, Nvidia GeForce Mx440se (64mb) GPU, on a K8T800-A MB using HDTV as monitor.
Thanks for you're advise The new code for ./configure worked well but I still cannot get passed #7 Enter linux-core directory and compile kernel modules

cd linux-core ; make nouveau.o

bash: cd: linux-core: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `nouveau.o'.  Stop.

I have attached outputs

[Hakimio]

AMD Athlon 64 CPU, 1G RAM, Nvidia GeForce Mx440se (64mb) GPU, on a K8T800-A MB using HDTV as monitor.

Your graphic adapter is NV10 family (NV17 card to be more precise) and many things are still "Work In Progress". Don't expect things to work flawlesly. See Feature matrix for more details.

Thanks for you're advise The new code for ./configure worked well but I still cannot get passed #7 Enter linux-core directory and compile kernel modules

cd linux-core ; make nouveau.o

bash: cd: linux-core: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `nouveau.o'.  Stop.

I have attached outputs

As I have already stated the guide is OUTDATED.
I guess now steps in 2D section should be sth like:

./configure --enable-nouveau-experimental-api --prefix=/usr/
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe nouveau

then just go to step 11.

Don't expect any help with 3D section until next month as currently I am pretty busy.

[Phonic_P]

I have really appreciated the time you have given me already and cannot thank you enough as you're replies, in this post, have been quite rapid compared to my other posts.
I shall attempt to use the code you have divulged and if it won't work I'll try to hold off till the new guide is written or nouveau takes over from vesa.
Once again thanks for ALL you have done.