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| author | Darxus <darxus@chaosreigns.com> | 2011-02-19 21:57:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Benjamin Franzke <benjaminfranzke@googlemail.com> | 2011-03-22 17:19:36 +0100 |
| commit | 4ba26bfe243a7fa6b6aeb329716bc5e2e6490aaa (patch) | |
| tree | 0d9191df0d74d2768a2d44f14b5706e67a60d62a | |
| parent | cf6947d66d156047d18d25289eb39c6d40125f8d (diff) | |
Nvidia NVC0 / Fermi cards do not yet work
To get this latest generation of Nvidia cards to work apparently requires
loading external firmware for Nouveau.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/building.html b/building.html index 42d02d3..96c41f2 100644 --- a/building.html +++ b/building.html @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ Cards probably work back to Radeon 7200 (2000).</p> <p><b>nVidia</b>: Requires Nouveau (open source driver). DRM output requires a kernel built from the Nouveau git repository, details below. -Cards probably work back to Riva TNT (1998).</p> +Cards probably work back to Riva TNT (1998). The latest series of chips, +NVC0 / Fermi, released March 2010, requires loading external firmware +for Nouveau, which is not documented.</p> <h2>Setting up the environment</h2> <p>If you want to install in $HOME/install (or another location that won't |