Installing the nouveau driver on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft+)
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These deb packages have been built under and for Ubuntu Edgy
They should work, but I didn't thest them since I haven't any nvidia card. 

To get the nouveau open-source 3d driver working in your distro you should 
firstly upgrade your distro to Xorg 7.2; you can do it on Edgy using my repository
at (feisty users should have it out-of-the-box):
 - http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/edgy/xorg-7.2/index.html

This is needed because I've built all these files under Xorg 7.2 seen that the 
previous versions have problems using mesa >= 6.5.2 (and nouveau requires a git 
version of mesa).

Then, simply install these packages (at least):
 - libdrm2_2.3.0+git20070317~3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb
 - libgl1-mesa-dri_6.5.3~git20070315-nouveau+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb    
 - libgl1-mesa-glx_6.5.3~git20070315-nouveau+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb    
 - libglu1-mesa_6.5.3~git20070315-nouveau+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb       
 - xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.1+git20070317~3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb
 - nouveau-drm-kernel-modules-2.6.17-11_0.1~3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb (only on edgy)

If you get any mesa-related problem while installing the packages, simply
remove the other *mesa* packages you've installed, the ones I've posted are the
only really needed for making 3d apps running under Linux.
Maybe you should remove any nvidia-binary package/module to get this working.

If you use another kernel than the 2.6.17-11 you should download the archive:
 - nouveau-drm.tar.bz2
Then exctract it and run "make && sudo make install"; it should do all that is
needed for nouveau (_only_).

After, launch:
 - sudo rmmod -f drm nvidia
 - sudo modprobe drm debug=1
 - sudo modprobe nouveau (maybe not really needed)

So, edit your xorg /etc/X11/xorg.conf configuration file setting the "Driver" 
line in the "Device" Section to "nouveau" like:

 Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Your nVidia Card"
         Driver          "nouveau"
         ...
 EndSection

Other xorg.conf settings are available looking in "man nouveau".

Now, you can (re)start xorg and enjoy the nouveau free driver!

Treviņo [trevi AT gmail DOT com] - [http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog]

							17/03/2007