Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)

Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 15, 2006 8:41 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com) by bronson
Parent article: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)

I think the current plan is _not_ to enable binary drivers for those ATI cards that have working 3D support. Have to keep eye on it, but that would mean basically that the binary driver is only enabled for X1300-X1950 cards.

NVIDIA does not have any working 3D open source driver... yet - see Nouveau, http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/

And if Nouveau becomes stable, it will be again the default driver, even if it does not support 100% of the NVIDIA binary driver performance. Or this's what I've heard from an ubuntu developer, and I think/hope that this is the general consensus there.

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