Noveau - the Good and Bad News

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 31 23:24:09 UTC 2009


Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> The good news:  I was running Noveau and didn't notice any
> problems with what it does.
> 
> The bad news:  Compared to Nvidia, Noveau is 0 for three.
> No fan control - it still roars.
> No compiz.
> Flightgear unusable.

None of these are expected to work IIUC. 3D support is still disabled in
the driver since it is not mature enough. It is just a 2D replacement
with a few benefits for some cards at this point.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault#Benefit_to_Fedora

Rahul




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