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Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 7:25 UTC (Sun) by shalem (subscriber, #4062)
In reply to: Weird colors by ncm
Parent article: The Nouveau driver graduates from staging

Hi,

I've been using the nouveau driver for a long time too, and colors are fine for me. What I would do if I were you is:
1) Install the proprietary driver (a pain I know), and try to reproduce, if the colors are good there it likely is a nouveau bug and not your hardware
2) Install Fedora 16 or 17 (you don't need to switch distros just clear 4G of hd space, do a livecd to harddisk install, and fully update it)
3) If the bug is still there with a fully up2date Fedora file a bug against xorg-x11-drv-nouveau in Fedora's bugzilla. Then hopefully Ben Skeggs will take a look and eventually fix it (he may first need some help from you to gather various info).

Note this is not meant as a shameless plug for Fedora, I just don't know any other distro which maintains nouveau as actively as Fedora does.

Regards,

Hans

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Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 9:06 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Is it that difficult to install the driver from source (git)?

Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 15:17 UTC (Sun) by balajig81 (guest, #48030) [Link]

The driver is part of the kernel and compiling the kernel and doing a modprobe @ init should do the thing