Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > Thanks for heading this issue in a constructive direction. Could you
> > add some pointers to the reversed engineer driver for NVIDIA GPUs? I
> > possibly add it to 10.2 as optional driver for testing purposes.
> 
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ is the main address.
> 
> Excerpt from the status page:
> DRM:    Responsable for memory management, it allows 2d(DDX) and
>         3d(DRI) drivers to coexist.
> Status: Seems to work.
> DDX:    2d driver
> Status: Xv is now working. Both XAA and EXA(new 2d acceleration
>         architecture) are working. Both AGP and PCI-E cards work now.
> DRI:    3d driver
> Status: Does not compile.
> 
> More info I got on irc.freenode.net#nouveau :
> basically, nouveau is the "nv" driver, with some bits in the kernel,
> and EXA..

Thanks! See bug #217736.

Best,
Stefan

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