On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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? > > AFAIK yes (or at least playable). But far from being stable. I plan on deploying an old PIII/GF4400 machine to be used as test/debug-bed once I have some free time. - Gilboa
