On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:39:23PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:55:03 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hopefully Nouveau gets 3D support within a couple of releases as well.
> Getting rid of the biggest pain of proprietary drivers would be one
> giant step forward for Linux on the desktop.
Yeah. While I wouldn't go out and buy nvidia cards I have a couple in systems
I got as scrap and it would be nice to have 3d on them. I don't trust the
nvidia stuff not to screw things up for helping test the nouveau drivers,
so I have been stuck with only 2d support for a good chunk of F12's
development.
The nouveau guys have made a surprising amount of progress and I think there
is a good chance they will have good 3d support 2 or 3 releases down the road.
(Though I would like to see Red Hat help out more to cut this to 1 or 2
releases, since I think the current situation hurts Fedora.) I'd also
like to see people move away from Cg and use the free and more portable
equivalents.
I had the good fortune to meet Ben Skeggs, a nouveau developer at Red
Hat's Brisbane office, and tell him how effective some of his work has
been so far. (I have a laptop with NVidia, not by choice but through
a weird set of circumstances you can find on my blog from last year.)
I have full KMS now on this laptop, and while there's no 3D yet, I
still managed to surprise a bunch of people here in Brisbane by
plugging my laptop into an external LCD TV, and having it just work.
I used this as a great example of how 6 months in Fedora-land can
bring a lot of changes.
By the way, I also met Dave Airlie and told him my r770-based ATI card
was also rocking, with the added bonus of 3D support. I'm really
happy with the progress in F12 and I hope other people enjoy it too!
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