Noveau - the Good and Bad News

[Greg]

On 1/04/2009 10:24 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>    
>> The good news:  I was running Noveau and didn't notice any
>> problems with what it does.
>>
>> The bad news:  Compared to Nvidia, Noveau is 0 for three.
>> No fan control - it still roars.
>> No compiz.
>> Flightgear unusable.
>>      
>
> None of these are expected to work IIUC. 3D support is still disabled in
> the driver since it is not mature enough. It is just a 2D replacement
> with a few benefits for some cards at this point.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault#Benefit_to_Fedora
>
> Rahul
>
>    
this will be a killer for Fedora11 if people cant use compiz/fusion , i 
can see people staying with fedora10 till there is 3D . hopefully we'll 
get it in Fedora12