Blacklisting Nouveau

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Feb 6 00:15:51 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> This isn't a good idea as the hardware the image is running on may change.
> Think particularly of live images. 3d packages are supposed to check for
> support for the 3d features they need and display a nice message if they
> can't run on the current hardware. (Usually this is done by running a
> script which does the checking and if things look good run the real
> program.)

And this is actually how Fedora is already set up, see opengl-games-utils. 
Now some 3D stuff might not be wrapped appropriately, that probably ought to 
get fixed.

        Kevin Kofler



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