Drop Xorg Nv driver?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 23:48:06 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 19:32 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Adam Williamson writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:44 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> On my laptop nouveau has been rock stable. Absolutely no problems (NV43, 
> Geforce Go 6600). I'm patiently waiting to see how well compiz eye candy 
> will work.

If you're on f13, you can install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental and try
it. If it breaks you get to keep both pieces :)
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