Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 21:40 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"On the Phoronix Forums we have been running a Q&A with the developers of the Nouveau project. For those out of the loop or new to Linux, the Nouveau project aims to provide an open-source 2D/3D graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware. After collecting a number of questions from our readers, KoalaBR and Marcheu have answered these questions. The questions range from whether there will be open-source SLI support to asking if NVIDIA has ever contacted the Nouveau developers."
Permalink for comment 268266
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2006-06-26
I hope that this project achieve his goals soon. For the mainstream users the nVidia driver is good enough, but nVidia is droping support for older-but-capable hardware. I've got a few years old Geforce 3 Ti200 card, that can run the new WM and Xorg capabilities very smoothly, but nVidia keep us (the [not so] old hardware users) in the "8000 series driver ghetto". The firstest releases of the 9000 series got support for that hardware, but it doesn't work well with a DVI out (a problem already appeared-and-solved in 8000 series), and the lastest releases (the ones with support for the new features) drop support.
So, again, people that resist to make unnecesary hardware update or doesn't represent a important market share are ignored before their hardware become unusable. That's the same thing for bcm43xx hardware and other stuff. This is *sad*.
So thanks a lot for the nouveau guys, and the guys from similar projects.
Edited 2007-09-03 22:56