F17 video annoyances, old hardware

[drago01]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2012/03/30 14:43 (GMT-0700) stan composed:
>>
>> > Nv should be dropped from the repositories for F17.
>>
>> Only when we know nouveau works for all antique NVidia chip classes.
>
> Why? If it can't do EXA on old chips and the server has no XAA support
> any more, it's no use. You're better off with working vesa than broken
> nv.

Vesa is basically as bad as you can go. So "better off with vesa" ... no.

Your are better off spending a few $ a new gpu.