Comment # 20 on bug 1005323 from Antonio Larrosa

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #19)
> (In reply to Antonio Larrosa from comment #18)
> > 2) Disable the Nouveau 3D/DRI driver in Leap as it's currently done and try
> > to get upstream to fix it. This, indeed it's much easier for us, as people
> > will just see bad performance and switch to the propietary nvidia drivers.
> > 
> > I'm not sure which option I prefer. I think I like option 1 (or 1.5) more,
> > but option 2 doesn't look bad either (and is, in fact, much easier for us).
> > Opinions?
> 
> Option 2 feels counter-intuitive: we do not distribute the binary drivers
> because 'we respect the kernel developers point of view that they are not
> legal' - yet we now formally recommend them to users?

They work, nouveau doesn't.


> Also: while we actually want to help the KDE users, option 2 punishes the
> GNOME (and other DE) users

I think giving GNOME users a broken driver punishes them even more. Note that
we have two different issues with nouveau. One is the multithreading support
which might not show in gnome since it doesn't seem to use openGL that way
(yet) but the other is the kwin issue, which freezes just after the first try
to draw something using opengl. Note that nobody is arguing that nouveau is
non-functional and the fact the gnome-shell or any other application hasn't
crashed/freezed yet, doesn't mean anything.

After talking with Martin, I changed my opinion. He's right that patching all
applications that fail with the broken driver is not the solution, but fixing
the driver is, and in the meantime, I vote to disable nouveau and make it as
easy as possible for nvidia users to install the propietary drivers.