On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:39:23PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:55:03 +0530, > Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hopefully Nouveau gets 3D support within a couple of releases as well. > > Getting rid of the biggest pain of proprietary drivers would be one > > giant step forward for Linux on the desktop. > > Yeah. While I wouldn't go out and buy nvidia cards I have a couple in systems > I got as scrap and it would be nice to have 3d on them. I don't trust the > nvidia stuff not to screw things up for helping test the nouveau drivers, > so I have been stuck with only 2d support for a good chunk of F12's > development. > > The nouveau guys have made a surprising amount of progress and I think there > is a good chance they will have good 3d support 2 or 3 releases down the road. > (Though I would like to see Red Hat help out more to cut this to 1 or 2 > releases, since I think the current situation hurts Fedora.) I'd also > like to see people move away from Cg and use the free and more portable > equivalents. I had the good fortune to meet Ben Skeggs, a nouveau developer at Red Hat's Brisbane office, and tell him how effective some of his work has been so far. (I have a laptop with NVidia, not by choice but through a weird set of circumstances you can find on my blog from last year.) I have full KMS now on this laptop, and while there's no 3D yet, I still managed to surprise a bunch of people here in Brisbane by plugging my laptop into an external LCD TV, and having it just work. I used this as a great example of how 6 months in Fedora-land can bring a lot of changes. By the way, I also met Dave Airlie and told him my r770-based ATI card was also rocking, with the added bonus of 3D support. I'm really happy with the progress in F12 and I hope other people enjoy it too! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
