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

Ian Chapman packages at amiga-hardware.com
Sun Nov 11 10:36:17 UTC 2012


On 10/11/12 22:38, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

>>
>> 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).
>
> Well, it's not really an option if your needs are, primarily, to play
> shoot-em-ups.
>

It's also not an option if the Linux box is used as a high performance 
visualization workstation either. Unfortunately the proprietary driver 
is more useful than just for games.

-- 
Ian Chapman.


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