[OT] nouveau packages for Fedora
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Oct 16 03:27:31 UTC 2006
Dawid Gajownik wrote:
> Hi!
> Right now Rawhide is really boring (devel freeze). If you have a bit
> more time, nVidia card and would like to test nouveau¹ driver you can
> check this page → http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FedoraPackages
>
> Compared to standard nv driver nouveau supports EXA acceleration and is
> a bit deobfuscated.
>
> I know that it's a bit off topic for this ml, but Fedora is my distro of
> choice and I thought that it's a Good Thing™ to support OSS drivers.
> Binary-only blobs must die ;)
>
> BTW nouveau requires X.Org X11R7.1 so you can't test it on FC5 :/
>
> ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
>
> Regards,
> Dawid
I got the rpms to compile and install. I could only get some garbled
output compared to the nv driver. I changed nv to nouveau in the config
file.
I could not find the other programs as described on the webpage referenced.
Jim
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