[Klug-general] OSS Graphics Drivers

Andrew Spode Miller spode at justfdi.com
Thu Jan 13 16:09:23 UTC 2011


With the Geforce 2 I have in my Living Room machine for MythTV - the
nv driver wasn't good enough. I'm using a backport of the nvidia
driver designed to work with Xorg 1.9.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Wayland - I read they
have "no plans to support it".

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> I had heard that the nouveau driver for nvidia chipsets works ok with 3D
> acceleration now.  I've not tried it but I _am_ intending to install Fedora
> 14 at some point.  I've downloaded the 16bit version.  I'm going to start
> with the nouveau driver and will report back.
>
> Maybe sometime next week.  I always have to gird my loins for an upgrade...
>
> Mike
>
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