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. 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org