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ro0x

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 79

Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

Is Open Source =P

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

but it's not usable atm and the feature matrix hasn't really been updated in the last 5 months

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

it is usable (running it right now). just not what you would expect.
dri doesn't work mostly just like the feature matrix says but that doesn't mean there haven't been changes since 5 months. check out the compile howto, it was changed just 4 days ago.

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baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

oh alright, very good to hear

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,958

Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

Any chance of an AUR package for nouveau ?

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Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

Nice overview article: Nouveau: A First Look

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

Surely one of the greatest initiatives out there - but it's sad to see, that it won't possibly overpower the closed source drivers at any time in the future.

Achieving this could be a great deal towards making Linux the superior gaming platform - less ressources spent on background processes (biggest lack of Vista) and a better and open source driver for the grahpics card.

That's utopia, isn't it?

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xerverius

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From: ~

Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: Nouveau driver for nVidia cards

:!: http://www.pledgebank.com/nouveaudriver