On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:25:56PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > 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.
What? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE4OQ It's the second half of the third paragraph: specifically, the only part where they actually quote the release announcement. > 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. We're getting there.
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