Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read. Looks like I'll be doing some testing
this week :)
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 8:47 AM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ?
(Or other non kms driver ?)
On 12/23/2009 07:54 PM, Dan Burkland wrote:
> I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D
acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may
give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite
sure).
>
> Dan
http://skeggsb.livejournal.com/568.html
Nouveau in Fedora 12 has support for KMS. It is very the same codebase
that has been merged in 2.6.23 now. The proprietary Nvidia driver
doesn't support KMS. KMS is not just pretty bootup btw. Refer to
http://keithp.com/blog/kernel-mode-drivers/
Rahul
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