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Purpose of nouveau?

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Purpose of nouveau?

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Post by Fratyr » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:54 pm

Hello,

Can't find any documentation regarding the subject.

What is the purpose of nouveau drivers? Does It better than old nvidia drivers? It works on older g.cards, like nVidia G10* on laptops?

Because I can't seem to make It work, and there's no proper HOWTO's yet. First of all I would like to know if I really need this, then I will try to explain what's my problem with it.

Any help will be appreciated! :)
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Post by Jazz-KP » Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:31 pm

There is a feature matrix on Nouveau website. Though, if you'll need something more than just 2d and KMS, then nouveau will not fit.
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Post by Fratyr » Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:42 pm

I need basic desktop env, KDE-4, virtual box with windows O.S and Adobe software, on linux: Development IDEs. Eclipse etc...
Is something of this requires 3D?
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Post by ashtophet » Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:45 am

AFAIK none of these applications require 3D accel. But if you need / want to test it, there's experimental 3D acceleration support via gallium3d [1] which will, depending on your video card, allow you to run flawlessly [2] compiz+emerald over KDE4 and games as quake3, openarena, xmoto...

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[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto
[2] That's based on my personal experience. I've a nv43 based nvidia card running on a relatively old box (AthlonXP@2600+, 2GB DDR400, etc). One of the users (gf) runs KDE4 + compiz without any problems (nvgl compiz-manager, cfr. [1]).
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