On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:38:41AM +0200, Sjors Gielen wrote: > > What about ATI and Nvidia owners? Kernel mode-setting for the -ati open > > source driver is currently in progress, and is available in PPAs for > > technically brave users to try out. For other hardware and other > > drivers, we're still waiting on upstream development to mature further, > > and providing what help where we can. > > However, in this piece, you ask the question "What about ATI and NVidia > owners?" - You're answering it shortly for ATI, and then generally for > all others. I've done my bit of reading on KMS, and found out Nouveau, I > think a fork of the FOSS NVidia 'nv' driver, will be used by default in > Fedora 11, and it also supports kernel mode-setting. Will Nouveau be set > as the default in Karmic, or will you wait, as you say, "on upstream > development to mature further"? Is there anything you can say about this?
Yes, we've been playing with KMS with -nouveau and have the requisite bits in PPAs, but we've not had the degree of success as with -ati. Also, -ati and -nouveau are developed on separate branches, which are not compatible enough to be merged with each other at the moment. As things mature upstream, this will be less of a problem. Aside from that, KMS is also available only for a subset of nvidia hardware. Older chipsets are still WIP. Regarding switching to -nouveau as default... I'd love to do this, but if we're going to be aggressive with getting KMS on -nouveau it may be causing a lot of instabilities anyway, so probably wisest to wait until KMS is solid first. I'd also like to see a lot more people running -nouveau successfully before we switch to it as the default. A lot of this is largely driven by volunteers, and so even just a few really active new community people to help test and to forward bugs upstream could accelerate progress and shift our strategy considerably. If you're interested in lending a hand and aren't afraid of patching and building X bits and the kernel, join the ubuntu-x@ mailing list and pop into #ubuntu-x on FreeNode. We've got a friendly little community working on all this stuff, but would love to welcome more to the ubuntu-x team. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
