Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:38:14PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > >> So all answer say that nouveau DRI driver on gallium is not readdy. >> May be people should then refrain posting hype like this! >> > > Since when did 'this _development_ release will be an _initial > milestone_ / roll-out of the Gallium bits' (emphasis mine) count as > hype? It's not like the article says 'SWEET JESUS GALLIUM HERE AND BY > GOD IT'S BRILLIANT AND DEFINITELY COMPLETELY FINISHED AND YOU SHOULD > ALL USE IT'. >
Sorry if it disappoint you but, honestly, from the article I had the feeling that 7.5 will have gallium 3D for nouveau and unless I'm mistaken an RC2 is not far from final release ( at least by my PERSONAL standards). Besides what you wrote in lower vase is by no way in this article. Life for Linux users with recent graphic cards is very hard ATM. I have one laptop with Intel GM45 (and NVIDIA with hybrid graphic), and it took me nearly 5 month to get KMS, Intel console frame buffer and X working peacefully toghether. Libdrm, Xserver, Intel driver where quite hard to maintain in sync, and KMS simply broke it for months (missed event/interrupts). Had to wait until 2.6.30-rc6 kernel version. This is by no way supported by debian even using experimental bits. Most people are unable to do it. For my destop with nvidia chip, KDE4 is just too slow without nouveau. Enabling Nouveau 2D make the shutdown sequence hang for nearly 5 mins probably stuck in some DMA operation (I cannot even enter in the kernel with the magic sysrq to know what hangs). And my favorite APP for streaming video and audio in the house is still broken. On vista I just had to download and install. I've been using linux exclusively at home and work for nearly 15 years, but sometimes I'm a bit disappointed. I know that sometime o have to undertake serious rework. KDE4 was one exemple. I understand X state required some heavy rework. But instead of telling people "this is not for you", you should consider hunting bugs instead of waiting months until distro package it. Anyway, thanks for all the work and I hope, with your efforts, (open source) graphic application will work as well in Linux as in Windows. --eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
