On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:08:48 +0300 Пламен Стоев <psst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10.04.2010 20:18, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO wrote: > > Are there any plans to include Nouveau (the free nvidia driver) > > in the next release? I heard somewhere that it's supporting 3D > > now. I would be very happy if that's true. I think its a bit early to make sweeping statements about this. > 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. Thanks for the overview! kk > Regards, > Plamen -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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