Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/01/10 12:31, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Since we don't support KMS for anything but Intel at this moment I have
> > not looked into this more deeply.
>
> As I have now read that the 2.6.33 kernel includes the nouveau driver
> and supports KMS for it as well, is there a plan for shipping at least
> the 2D driver for X as well? (though I read that with some cards, X.org
> server 1.7 is recommended for nouveau - do we have plans for that in 11.3?)
>
> From what I gather, other distros seem to have been shipping nouveau for
> some time now, and we would be able to support KMS for all major cards,
> which might be a good idea overall.
>
> Of course, I'm just a humble Factory and NVidia user, spending my time
> on an unrelated upstream project (SeaMonkey), so I can only ask, hope
> and watch - but as a project manager, I understand that things aren't
> always as easy as they sound in the first place. ;-)
>
> Robert Kaiser

I have been looking up what chipsets the nouveau driver supports and it
seems limited, e.g the GeForce 8600 (G84) and 8800 (G92) are not
supported. I shall have to ask upstream if they can provide a list as it
takes quite a lot of digging through google to discover what nv?? driver
equates to what cards. I haven't checked the other distros, but
presumably they still rely on the closed source NVidia driver to support
these other cards and chipsets.
I eventually found a list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_Graphics_Processing_Units#GeForce_8_.288xxx.29_series
Regards
Sid.
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