F17 video annoyances, old hardware

[Felix Miata]

On 2012/03/31 18:25 (GMT+0200) drago01 composed:

> Adam Williamson  wrote:

>>  On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>>>  On 2012/03/30 14:43 (GMT-0700) stan composed:

>>>  >  Nv should be dropped from the repositories for F17.

>>>  Only when we know nouveau works for all antique NVidia chip classes.

>>  Why? If it can't do EXA on old chips and the server has no XAA support
>>  any more, it's no use. You're better off with working vesa than broken
>>  nv.

> Vesa is basically as bad as you can go. So "better off with vesa" ... no.

> Your are better off spending a few $ a new gpu.

If you're using a system old enough that the GPU is unsupported any more, 
odds are good money or viable availability would be an obstacle even if lack 
of an available place to put what is theoretically available to supplant it 
isn't.
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