2012/1/15 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > [snip] > It's good that Arch Linux still provide the nv driver, at least Debian > dropped it, but it's known that nouveau doesn't work for many users, > that there at least is the need to offend the GPL to use the proprietary > driver with a kernel-rt, while at the same time an important DE will > force people to use 3D acceleration. > > Regards, > > Ralf > Slight deviation from the topic here, but relevant: Work is being done[1] to provide gnome-shell's functionality to users without the requirement of GPU acceleration, this is done through the LLVMPipe software rasterizer. This does place a SSE2 requirement on the CPU but that shouldn't be an issue these days. (pentium 4 and up, amd K8 and up) [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering
