Drop Xorg Nv driver?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 23:14:19 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:44 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:36:29AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Nvidia has announced that they are deprecating it
> > 
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-March/049749.html
> > 
> > They are recommending users to use Vesa instead as the replacement but
> > the real reason appears to be Nouveau which Fedora has supported for a
> > long time now. 
> 
> Has to be said that I've always had better luck with nv.  Nouveau has
> "seemed" to be very unstable to me (although it's always been hard to
> pin down actual reproducible bugs).  I never used and don't care about
> any 3D or advanced features though ...

Ben is very keen to fix problems in nouveau and has lots of ideas for
tracking them down. If you're having trouble please do file a bug even
if you can't quite pin it down yourself, we may be able to figure
something out.
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