nouveau and 3d performance in f14?

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Nov 22 04:11:55 UTC 2010


On 11/21/2010 03:28 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> Before I start tinkering with 3d graphics (like desktop effects) in my
> f14 main machine (with a nVidia Corporation G96 [Quadro FX 380]
> graphics card in it), I wondered if anyone here has played with 3d
> graphics (installing the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package first)
> and running with our open source nouveau driver rather than the
> proprietary driver.
>
> If anyone can report what performance has been like with
> nouveau/mesa-dri-drivers-experimental on a machine with my card I
> would be grateful - any reports with other nvidia hardware running the
> open source drivers would be appreciated too. I know that a lot of
> people participated in the graphics test prior to f14 release but I
> wondered what experience showed now that quite a few people have been
> running f14 for a few weeks and testing more extensively in day to day
> use.
>
> Thanks
>

I've used the F/OSS drivers and they work just fine for simple stuff 
like wobbly windows and spinning desktops.


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