On Sunday 31 January 2010 18:54:17 you wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:35 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > =================================================== > > > > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > > =================================================== > > Do take notice that I -am- using the nVidia binary drivers. Consider the notice taken. ;-) > Far worse, as we are all using the nVidia driver instead of helping the > Nouveau debug their driver, if/when thing go horribly wrong, switching > to Nouveau driver will be extremely painful to say the least. > > As I said before, like me, you can choose to use binary drivers, but > keep in mind that by doing it, were all slowly cutting the branch from > under our collective feet. Yes, I agree basically. In the long run, it would of course be much better to have a working open source driver for nVidia. But remember that things can go horribly wrong even with open source drivers (Intel in F10 time springs to mind), so that's not a big assurance. That said, I don't feel the current F12 switch to nouveau to be so extremely painful. Ok, the driver is not ready yet for 3D, but 2D support is there and works quite well, AFAIK. And the driver is being developed very very actively --- I'm monitoring the nouveau mailing list, and can see new bugfixes and patches *literally* every day. It looks very promising and I believe 3D will be RE'd and functional sooner than people expect. On some cards it already works --- as reported, Compiz already works (with minor issues) on nv40 and nv50 generations. Take a look at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage#Status and http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
