How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 23 14:46:52 UTC 2009
On 12/23/2009 07:54 PM, Dan Burkland wrote:
> I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite sure).
>
> Dan
http://skeggsb.livejournal.com/568.html
Nouveau in Fedora 12 has support for KMS. It is very the same codebase
that has been merged in 2.6.23 now. The proprietary Nvidia driver
doesn't support KMS. KMS is not just pretty bootup btw. Refer to
http://keithp.com/blog/kernel-mode-drivers/
Rahul
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