On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:19:52 -0600 Rick Sewill <rsewill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Questions please: > 1) Are there 3 drivers, nvidia, nv, nouveau? Yes. > 2) If there are 3 drivers, how did people decide which driver to use? The Fedora default is 'nouveau'. > My questions on this subject, are as follows: > a) Is the nouveau driver now considered better than the nv driver? > If the nouveau driver is considered better, I am curious why? Yes. It's maintained actively and is making rapid improvements. The nv driver is hardly maintained anymore. > b) Is it true the nvidia driver is faster than the nouveau driver? In Fedora 12 the nouveau driver has no 3d. The binary only non free nvidia one does. > I wanted to use the "free" driver, if possible, so I was using > nv. I switched to nouveau because that seemed to be the new default. > I am wondering what I am giving up not using the nvidia driver. 3d. However, Fedora 13 should have 3d support in nouveau for lots of cards. kevin
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