Re: How to use x11 nouveau on NetBSD

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:47:12AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:42:26AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > I have an old Nvidia GeForce3 video card, which is supported by
> > xf86-video-nv x11 driver available in pkgsrc.
> > 
> > Till now I never tried to check whether 3D games etc. would work on
> > NetBSD. I decided to try out a couple of games on NetBSD - tuxracer and
> > supertuxkart.
> > 
> > As such the acceleration these games need is not working and some
> > searching around tells me that nouveau module is supposed to provide that.
> 
> Where did yoy read that?


Mainly the home page: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Also pages related to various distros that show they have
xf86-video-nouveau x11 driver such as:

http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xf86-video-nouveau/
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/

Instead of xf86-video-nouveau I find /usr/pkg/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so on
NetBSD. I am not sure whether this library is supposed to be doing what
xf86-video-nouveau x11 driver does for other platforms (examples above),
and if so how it is supposed to come in play when running x11.

Mayuresh