Does the nouveau kernel module support 3D video hardware acceleration?

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Sat Nov 10 06:08:35 UTC 2012


Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:

> Bruno Wolff III writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 00:30:11 +0800,
>>   "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <singapore.mr.teo.en.ming at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if the nouveau driver supports 3D video hardware
>>> acceleration or only 2D video acceleration.
>>
>> It supports 3D acceleration.
>
> Not on all Nvidia chipsets.
>
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix

I tried it and got only about 1/7 of the FPS I get with the drivers from
NVIDIA, so it's not really an option (unless you have a really fast card
and want to waste it maybe).


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Fedora 17


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