Difficulties testing the new nouveau driver

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Wed Feb 20 08:07:21 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 12:43 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 10:46 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >> Fine with me.  Wish I'd noticed the version number skew earlier.
> > 
> > Do you want me to resubmit the nouveau driver as a separate package, or
> > are you okay with just splitting it up? FWIW, nouveau is about twice as
> > quick as the nv driver for me on 2D, and feels so much snappier. It
> > would be great to have an updated snapshot for F9.

Please do, we can drop the snapshots from the nv package then,

> 
> Should we consider making it the default for Fedora 9?

Not until the nouveau project does a release they consider stable, it
still doesn't work in all cases nv does...

granted I do think we should ship nouveau with randr 1.2 turned on by
default in our version.

Dave.




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