Move to Nouveau

Posted Mar 29, 2010 23:01 UTC (Mon) by efexis (guest, #26355)
In reply to: Move to Nouveau by tetromino
Parent article: NVIDIA deprecates the xf86-video-nv driver

I leave my computer date set to 2009, that way I can continue to code, audio edit, write music, watch movies/tv, email, facebook, read lwn 'n other websites, all without being crippled by a lack of 3D. Occasionally when I want to experience 3D, I bend my laptop screen backwards a little, or sometimes close one eye and pretend to myself that I have no depth perception.

The noughties were a good decade

Posted Apr 3, 2010 16:13 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (2 responses)

Thanks for the good laugh. Frankly most of the time I am not sure if I am using 3D acceleration or not, except when I try the opengl mode of mplayer (and usually go back to xv anyway due to ugly artifacts).

The noughties were a good decade

Posted Apr 3, 2010 19:28 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

On many (most?) modern video cards, Xv is implemented by means of 3D
texture-mapping.

The noughties were a good decade

Posted Apr 3, 2010 21:11 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

So I'm using 3D without knowing it... it seems likely, as xvinfo says

Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Textured Video"

But it's a good compromise, not having to deal with opengl directly.