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#... Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org