emerging nouveau

dingfelder · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: emerging nouveau

Has anyone here gotten nouveau working as an alternative to nvidia-drivers?

if so, wioll it actually work, and will multiple monitors work?

and if so, how did you emerge it?

I added to via layman, but cant seem to emerge it

Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

As an alternative to nvidia-driver, well that is to much it is much more of a fun to try if you want to help them out since it is in a very early development and hasn't integrated 2D nor 3D support entirely yet. At this stage you might be better of helping them develop rather than using the driver in a production enviorment. Thats is just my little knowledge of the drivers so far. Hope it helps a bit.
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mark_alec · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GentooEbuilds
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Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

Well, now I just have nouveau emerged and man, it works really good, I have it as an alternative to nvidia since xorg 7.3 ABI changes made the latest nvidia blob not work, but I am glad it did now I'm happy with the 2d nouveau brings I plan on using them until nvidia release a new blob.
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niceness · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject:

I used the driver for a couple of days and it performed pretty good, but for some reason GTK was really slow.