Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/01/10 22:30, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Sid Boyce wrote:
> > 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.
>
> From what I read on http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
> that's not true, as those are NV50 series chips and those are
> well-supported in 2D - which is not worse than what we ship by default
> right now (the old open nv driver), with the difference that KMS is
> supported and an experimental (or highly experimental) 3D driver does
> exist.
In the FeatureMatrix I see no mention of those cards and what I posted
was from wikipedia which cross referenced cards and codenames and from
that deduced that those cards weren't supported to date.

> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > What's funny when it comes to KMS on nVidia, is the fact, that nouveau
> > gives
> > you only KMS and nice splash appearance (Fedora, Mandriva), while
> > closed blob
> > driver gives you all other features.
> >
> > Nouveau is just useless eye candy at the moment :/ .
>
> It's not worse than what openSUSE currently ships as a default, on the
> contrary, by supporting KMS and therefore potentially being able to run
> X as user instead of root and possibly making startup somewhat faster
> and less flickery, it's already better now than our default.
> Of course, the closed driver gives 3D support, but that one is not what
> openSUSE can ship by default, now or in the future, so there's no change
> with respect to that - but even if nouveau's 3D support is highly
> experimental not not shippable as a default right now, we can go some
> part of the way and give the stable part to users (and help making it
> even better by having more people run it and potentially report
> remaining problems) and pave the way for adding the 3D part when it
> becomes usable (and make it easier for the bold bleeding-edge type who
> wants to test it).
>
> Robert Kaiser

I always like to join in the effort as a tester of new stuff.
Thanks & Regards
Sid.
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