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InstallNouveau
Compiling Nouveau from source
Instead of using the distribution-provided binaries, you can also recompile Nouveau yourself. There are several reasons to want to compile Nouveau from source, here are t...
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DebianInstall
Installing Nouveau from git using the latest git kernel and Debian GNU/linux unstable/experimental
Install the required toolchain. Alternatively you can install the nouveau-build-deps 1.0 all.deb Debi...
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FeatureMatrix
Notes
1 NV0x family only supports swizzled textures, which we can't use for 2D stuff for various reasons. So no acceleration of XRENDER on those.
2 Note Xv, not XvMC. See the "video decoding accel" li...
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Source
Source
DDX git (2D driver) holds the accelerated Nouveau Xorg driver.
This was forked from nVidia’s nv driver a long time ago.
Git address:
DRM git (DRM userspace libraries) holds libdrm and libdrm_...
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VideoAcceleration
Most NVIDIA cards have built-in video codec decoding of some sort, and it can in many cases be used by linux via XvMC or VDPAU. This is usually marketed as PureVideo or PureVideo HD. Note that this pa...
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PowerManagement
The following page contains information about the current state of PM, examples of how to use it and possible ways to determine if it may be used on your system.
It is currently only possible to read...