On Thursday 05 July 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the
> box using the OpenSource driver. I have a 5000 series card in it.
The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration.
What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU.
> I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am
> not sure where these come from yet. Video resolution and mouse features
> changed.
FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic'
nvidia.com close source driver.
> FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has. Heck, I
> know Windows people that tell me the same thing.
nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles
around ATI's.
No question about it.
Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working,
3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau
project will cover that)
- Gilboa
Is this Nouveau package in a testable state yet?
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