On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 01:25 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:51:53AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > > Now if I understand correctly the -nvidia driver doesn't yet support KMS > > right, so it's boot will actually be less attractive? > > The -nvidia driver does not support KMS. I do not know of any plans for > -nvidia to support KMS.
The last I remember of this, implementing KMS required symbols explicitly exported as GPL, making it impossible for nvidia to implement KMS in the closed driver. That's a memory from some time ago, but this nvnews thread[1] both confirms the GPL symbols issue and suggests that nvidia are considering whether to implement a work-alike solution. > Because of this, we do not anticipate -nvidia > users will benefit as much from some of the boot improvement work being > done. However, at least in Lucid, -nvidia is the best driver for > accelerated 3D performance. Or, indeed, the only driver for accelerated 3D performance[2] :). [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=129253 [2] In that we, and upstream, will cry UNSUPPORTED! at any non-packaging bugs you will encounter in the packages providing 3D in xorg-edgers.
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