Feature changed by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Feature #307588, revision 11 Title: Add nouveau drivers for xorg openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) Description: Hi, nouveau drivers (nvidia) are the only good alternative to nvidia closed source drivers. It would be awesome to use it on openSUSE 11.2 by default. Discussion: #1: Todd R (theblackcat) (2009-12-03 17:02:12) I think this is a good idea, by the time 11.3 rolls around nouveau should be in pretty good shape. Maybe not perfect, maybe not as good as the official binary drivers, but probably far better than the official (crippled) open-source nv driver. In the meantime one of the nouveau developers has provided an openSUSE repository for the drivers: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jobermayr/ (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jobermayr/openSUSE_11.2/) #2: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-12-03 17:14:00) Since Factory is open for everyone maybe he can add the package and maintain it. Looks like Novell Xorg developers don't have enough resources to maintain it. #3: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) (2009-12-10 17:38:26) It is very nice to see my OBS project here. Just for clarification: I am not a XOrg/nouveau developer - more a packager just for fun... I do not understand any kind of source code (I am happy if I get some very simple loops in very very old QBasic working...) This is because lack of time -> I need it for translating KDE and my study... I "robbed" many things from Ruediger Oertel (home:oertel:Radeon_DRI2). All I can do is daily packaging and asking developers (mainly upstream) if something is broken... For proper installation you should read: English: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/openSUSEPackages (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/openSUSEPackages) German: http://de.opensuse.org/Nouveau (http://de.opensuse.org/Nouveau) I will write a short article with links to above articles and this feature request for "Weekly News" #101 or #102. #4: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) (2010-01-19 20:05:27) Because nouveau driver needs at least a Xserver 1.7 you have to include following repo for openSUSE 11.2 (additionally): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.2/ I wait with building for Factory until there is also at least a Xserver 1.7 in main repo ... + #5: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) (2010-01-20 21:12:04) + Another repository is needed for openSUSE 11.2 (additionally): + + http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.2/ + + Otherwise Kernel modesetting and nouveau driver do not work ... + + There is also a one-click-install option on: + http://software.opensuse.org/search -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307588