Hi,
In my experience the only reliable open source drivers are the
ones for Intel, and Intel doesn't make a stand alone video
card, just on board video for Intel motherboards.
For several releases now I've given the nouveau drivers a chance
on each new fedora install, and within a week (usually within
two hours) I've had the desktop freeze up hard, so I install the
rpmfusion binary nvidia drivers and never have any more trouble.
Yeah, great point. I actually forgot about that - I'm using the radeon
driver, which I think is also from rpmfusion.
As long as it doesn't create the instability problems that it did years ago....