> Yes, nouveau supports blobless 3d. But it's still very experimental and > incomplete. I managed to build it under Arch, but it took me 3 days. The > driver has crashed my computer only once by now (I'm using it from two > days), but I suppose it will crash again, and again, and again... :) It > also requires newer kernel (latest nouveau builds won't work on kernels > <2.6.34, due to some interface breakage), newer mesa, and other newer > libraries. In Debian GNU/Linux, Nouveau is still in the "experimental" > repository. And in Squeeze (gNS 3 will be based on Squeeze) the kernel > version is 2.6.32 and it will probably stay that way. Ubuntu backported > some features for linux 2.6.32 for their 10.04 release, so nouveau would > be usable at least for 2D, but it depends on whether or not Debian will > accept these changes for Squeeze, so we can have them in gNS 3 (this > seems unlikely to me, but who knows). So I suppose that there won't be > any 3d for nvidia in gNS 3. >
Thank you for your answer. Do you know if nouveau works on linux-libre? I will compile linux-libre on my slackware 13.0 box and 3D support would be nice. Thanks. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users