F17 video annoyances, old hardware

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 18:25 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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.

...it's still better than no X.
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