Bug 480782

Summary:	please use nouveau on Nvidia hardware as default when possible
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User Drfk9mafMw <forgotten_Drfk9mafMw>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_vXTZVacoSi, markgray+to-suse, sndirsch
Version:	Alpha 0
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User Drfk9mafMw 2009-03-01 11:21:54 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6

Just like Fedora announced for 11, we should also use the nouveau driver (without 3D acceleration) as default for Nvidial graphics hardware over the old and poor-featured nv. 

Among the core improvements is randr1.2 support, which will allow multi screen setups even without the proprietary nvidia driver (legacy is about unusable with KDE 4.x).

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

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2009-03-02 02:27:46 UTC

No way! Simply forget about it!

Comment 2 Forgotten User vXTZVacoSi 2009-03-02 16:25:20 UTC

Fair enough, you are doing a good job with openSUSE xorg so I figure you have your reasons.
But how about including it in xorg-x11-driver-video or xorg-x11-driver-nouveau to make it easier for people to use it. Atleast the 2d part seems solid if Fedora thinks about using it for default.

Comment 3 Matthias Hopf 2009-03-03 17:39:07 UTC

Compiling and supporting nouveau is a nightmare. Sorry, it's not the intention of the nouveau project to produce a distribution ready driver - talked with Stephane (not Stefan) from the project about that.

Fedora has it because it's a community project. The nouveau driver is also packaged in openSUSE, and sometimes it even compiles.