Fedora 7 has been released. The release features GNOME 2.18, KDE 3.5.6, fast user switching, hotplugging of display devices, a new theme, kvm, the exprimental Nouveau driver, and much more. Read the release notes, and download or view screenshots.
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Well, duh. That would be a total disaster if it did. It's a pre-alpha almost-kinda-maybe-working driver at this point.
From nouveau's FAQ:
1.4. When can we expect a working driver?
For 2D there are still some known bugs but nouveau should work the same as the nv Xorg driver. ...
1.5. What is the current status of the driver?
... 2D works as well as nv driver from Xorg with a few additional features. ...
It's basically the same as the nv driver, only deobfuscated. Might as well use it instead of nv, if you can't ship with the binary driver nv default.
Member since:2005-07-08
It's basically the same as the nv driver, only deobfuscated. Might as well use it instead of nv, if you can't ship with the binary driver nv default.
Right... Then these have an opengl screensaver kick in and the entire X server crashes. You'll never see that happen with the 'nv' driver :-)
Adam
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2007-02-17
"but I can tell you that the nouveau driver wasn't installed for my Nvidia card by default"
Well, duh. That would be a total disaster if it did. It's a pre-alpha almost-kinda-maybe-working driver at this point. The vast majority of regular users have no need nor desire to subject themselves to that, and thus there's no compelling reason to install it by default. The technophiles who'd want to play with it can easily install it from the repos.