[wellylug] video card choice

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:10 +1300, David Harrison wrote:
> There is the Nouveau project which is aiming to get decent 3D  
> accellerated drivers for NVidia cards:
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> 
> I'm not sure how well it works or the depth of the hardware support  
> but the core driver is based on the NV driver.

It's still very developmental - I'm currently hanging out with one of
the main developers at Linux conf.

They have glxgears working on *some* cards, but there is still far to go
on it - basicly, the first you will want to consider trying the driver
will be around the end of this year.


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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