Congrats to everyone involved in this effort! I know there was some blood, sweat, and tears shed to get here, but c'mon, this is awesome!
Cheers, Rick On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:45 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > After several months working on testing and integration, last night we > officially transitioned from -nv to -nouveau. If you own nvidia > hardware and are not using the proprietary drivers, you will be affected > by this change. > > > The principle reason we made this move is because -nouveau is more > actively developed upstream than -nv, and is as good or better than -nv > functionally. Based on testing feedback[1], we recognize there may be > regressions on certain hardware that used to work on -nv, but we are > confident that overall this will give the average user better results > than the status quo, and will only get better going forward. > > Another key reason for making this change now, is to gain Kernel > Mode-setting (automatic screen resolution selection) support on this > hardware. By doing mode-setting in the kernel, it promises a smoother > and more graphically attractive boot process. > > To achieve this, we are using nouveau code backported from the 2.6.33 > kernel via the linux-backports-modules package, as the 2.6.32 did not > have usable nouveau KMS code. We are still evaluating and experimenting > with how best to integrate and support this code, so may make some > further adjustments in coming weeks. > > Since this version of -nouveau supports only 2D, it's our expectation > that most users will use this driver during installation, and then > switch over to -nvidia. To facilitate this, a major goal for us in > Lucid is to restructure and improve the process for smoothly > transitioning to -nvidia (and back). To this end, we've established a > testing community to run through this process each week[2] so we have a > reliable measurement of our progress. > > Looking further forward, 3D functionality is under work upstream. We've > not tested it yet, but expect that it will take some time to be stable > enough for real world use so are not considering it for Lucid. But we > will be providing it via our xorg-edgers PPA[3] at some point, and hope > to include it in a future Ubuntu release. > > Bryce > > 1: Results of -nouveau testing: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation > 2: Results of -nvidia testing: > http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/xorg_prop_drivers/ > 3: If you don't know what xorg-edgers is, you probably shouldn't be > installing it! :-) > -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
