Nvidia driver in F18?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 09:35 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:58:22AM +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> > Has the Nvidia driver been improved in f18?
> 
> I can't answer the _detailed_ part of your question, but, F18
> has version 1.0.4 of the open source Nouveau driver, where as F17 shipped
> with a git snapshot named '0.0.16-34.20110720gitb806e3f' and later updated
> to '0.0.16-37.20120306gitf5d1cd2'.
> 
> So, it's worth testing.

A lot of the important bits of nouveau (and all modern drivers) now
reside in the kernel as part of KMS, so F18-as-shipped would be
different from F17-as-shipped wrt nouveau even if the
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau package hadn't changed.

of course, we now keep legacy releases up-to-date kernel-wise, so in
many ways, up-to-date f17 will have almost the same NVIDIA support as
up-to-date f18. wheels within wheels...
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