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