nvidia sucks again ! Was recent wine crashes fc6 sessions

[Jim Cornette]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman <netllama <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> On 12/9/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley <at> adelphia.net> wrote:
>>> (I'm still waiting for google to buy nvidia and take the driver
>>> open source .
>> Life must be nice in this fantasy land of yours.
> 
> Google buying out NVidia and freeing their driver might be fantasy, but here in 
> real world, there's this:
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
> It isn't ready for end users yet, but soon it will be. They already have 
> glxgears running for some NVidia cards.
> 
> I'd not buy an NVidia card now, but when Nouveau will work, why not?
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

I tried out the nouveau driver. It is not ready for prime-time but does 
work and compile on my NV card. I believe that the driver will be part 
of Fedora in the near future. There is interest in getting this driver 
in the Fedora fold.

I didn't buy the NV card intentionally, the lack of OSS support for 3D 
is one reason I'd not purchase the card on my own. Maybe when high end 
cards work by default in Linux, I'd consider purchasing the product.

Jim

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