xf86-video-nouveau

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"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com> writes:

>> and GF9300G M (sic!). So if anyone have troubles with xf86-video-nv
>> he/she can try luck with xf86-video-nouveau.
>
> I searched for xf86-video-nouveau on freshports.org , I cant find it

The port is not comitted or decided upon yet. There is ports/131276 but
it has old snapshot. The new snapshot depends on libdrm_nouveau.so which
is only in git at the moment. So I think it's better to wait for a new
release of libdrm before replying to the PR with update.

> I would like to track the progress of this driver. I know it is a work
> in progress and it will be awhile, but I am really wanting 3D accel
> nvidia on amd64.

I don't know about any progress on porting *current* DRM code for
nouveau. But the DDX driver *just* worked out of the git. So I packaged
it in a port for others to try.

> if I am correct xf86-video-nouveau is 2D only at this point.

Right. Though I don't know if any of 2D accel parts require DRM support
(eg., EXA, Xv, XvMC).

> I would like to know instructions for how to test it on FreeBSD 7.1 or even 8

It should be as simple as
- delete nvidia-driver (if you have one installed)
- extract, compile and install libdrm and nouveau.
- enable nouveau in xorg.conf

If you happen to want one from that PR then you don't need new
libdrm. The one already in ports should work fine.

>
> Sam Fourman Jr.