(In reply to joseph-thommes from comment #7)
> Oh these two video options were for testing and did not show any effect.
> I accidently took this kernel log, but the other ones without these options
> looked the same.
> I'm not that into compiling everything on my own (except for some of the
> easy or
> self written parts; or when gentoo does it for me ;)), but I'm willing to
> learn
> and been always looking for a good reason to get myself doing something like
> this
> and not thinking that others will do it or that it does not have enough
> advantages.
> 
> So just that I got it right:
> I get the source code from the nouveau git repository,
> change the affected code parts, follow the instructions in the readme etc.
> and compile nouveau as a module to load it.
> 
> Is it enough that I just download a snapshot and do a out-of-tree
> compilation?
> Is it compatible with my kernel?
> (because it says it contains the 3.x versions and my version is 4)
> Which settings do I need to enable in my kernel that are not trivial?
> 
> Sorry for so many questions, but I'd really like to get this done.

Doesn't matter what code you grab, it should basically be the same for the past
many kernel versions. Nouveau got a bit of a rewrite in 4.3, so the code might
look a bit different if you use an older kernel, but it's the same idea.

If this is your first time compiling a kernel, then it might get a bit tricky.
First grab a kernel, compile it, make sure you can boot it, and *then* make the
relevant changes.