Drop Xorg Nv driver?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 27 11:44:12 UTC 2010


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 ...

Rich.

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