[opensuse-factory] nouveau driver default for some nvidia cards?
So I have done a fair bit of testing against the latest nouveau driver with my nvidia quadro card (PCIe NVS 280) this past week and have been very pleasantly surprised at how stable and happy it makes my system in comparison to the icky nv driver. Granted that the way in which I had to do this was manually compile and install the driver as per the instructions on their wiki. I have created bug 433626 for this issue. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433626 -- Ted Bullock <tbullock@canada.com> http://www.comlore.com High Voltage Software Engineer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:51:47PM -0600, Theodore Bullock wrote:
So I have done a fair bit of testing against the latest nouveau driver with my nvidia quadro card (PCIe NVS 280) this past week and have been very pleasantly surprised at how stable and happy it makes my system in comparison to the icky nv driver.
Granted that the way in which I had to do this was manually compile and install the driver as per the instructions on their wiki.
I have created bug 433626 for this issue. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433626
The nouveau driver still hasn't nailed down its userspace/kernelspace api, so that makes it very hard for us to add it to the distro at this time. Yes, Fedora does provide it in a limited facility, but they do this by saying the kernel side is going to change quite frequently, something that we so far have been hesitant to do. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 12:56:08 Greg KH wrote:
Yes, Fedora does provide it in a limited facility, but they do this by saying the kernel side is going to change quite frequently, something that we so far have been hesitant to do.
Hmm... I had no problems (apart from suspend) using the opensuse provided nouveau driver from 10.3 or 11.0 distributions. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/nouveau- kmp-default-0.20070905_2.6.22.5_31-2.x86_64.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/nouveau- kmp-default-0.10.1.20080424_2.6.25.5_1.1-15.1.x86_64.rpm I would certainly enjoy to see in in 11.1 but it appears to be unmaintained in the build service since August. At least it does not have any of the color-banding issues that are present in nv. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hi, On Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 12:51:47, Theodore Bullock wrote:
So I have done a fair bit of testing against the latest nouveau driver with my nvidia quadro card (PCIe NVS 280) this past week and have been very pleasantly surprised at how stable and happy it makes my system in comparison to the icky nv driver.
Testing it on one card, in one setup, does not really qualify a driver to be a default driver :) We decided against nouveau because we think its not mature enough for a default driver and also because we cant really support it that well like we can the nv driver. The driver will be in the buildservice though, like it has been since 10.3. So you can just install and use it... Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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