[OT] nouveau packages for Fedora

[Jim Cornette]

Dawid Gajownik wrote:
> Hi!
>     Right now Rawhide is really boring (devel freeze). If you have a bit 
> more time, nVidia card and would like to test nouveau¹ driver you can 
> check this page → http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FedoraPackages
> 
> Compared to standard nv driver nouveau supports EXA acceleration and is 
> a bit deobfuscated.
> 
> I know that it's a bit off topic for this ml, but Fedora is my distro of 
> choice and I thought that it's a Good Thing™ to support OSS drivers. 
> Binary-only blobs must die ;)
> 
> BTW nouveau requires X.Org X11R7.1 so you can't test it on FC5 :/
> 
> ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
> 
> Regards,
>     Dawid

I got the rpms to compile and install. I could only get some garbled 
output compared to the nv driver. I changed nv to nouveau in the config 
file.
I could not find the other programs as described on the webpage referenced.

Jim