On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:05:41AM -0800, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Christopher, > > Christopher James Halse Rogers [2010-02-03 21:50 +1100]: > > We're aiming to ship Nouveau as the default driver for nVidia cards in > > Lucid as a better nv. Towards this end there are now packages ready > > for wider testing in the xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA[1]. > > That's great to hear! Many thanks for your efforts there. > > > You should not expect to work: > > * The nvidia binary drivers. The nouveau kernel module will bind to > > the hardware and there is no mechanism for handing off to nvidia > > kernel module. > > Would it be possible to integrate that into the alternatives system > that Alberto built for nv vs. the various nvidia binary driver > versions? They also ship a kernel module which binds the device, after > all.
That is the plan. Alberto is planning on hacking on this through the week. We've got a desktop box set up here at the sprint with nvidia hw, and will be testing moving between nouveau and nvidia. Thanks, Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
