Drop Xorg Nv driver?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:44 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 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 ...
> 
> 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.

Just one data point, maybe an isolated one, dunno:

That sounds encouraging, but it doesn't match with my recent experience: for 3 
weeks I thought F-13 kernels not booting for me was a nouveau issue (my bug 
report had nouveau in the bug summary during that time).  It may be something 
different after all, but I still don't know for sure and there was and still 
has not been a word from the bug assignees/Cc'd people.  Not sure if Ben is 
among them though.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571587