On Thursday 05 July 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote: >On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: >> I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the >> box using the OpenSource driver. I have a 5000 series card in it. > >The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration. >What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU. > >> I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am >> not sure where these come from yet. Video resolution and mouse features >> changed. > >FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic' >nvidia.com close source driver. > >> FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has. Heck, I >> know Windows people that tell me the same thing. > >nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles >around ATI's. >No question about it. > >Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working, >3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau >project will cover that) > >- Gilboa Is this Nouveau package in a testable state yet? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You will always find something in the last place you look.
