On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:09:09AM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > This patch default to a proper driver for nvidia cards considering that: > - nv development is over and it's no more supported by nivdia who "owns" most > of its commiters > - nouveau offer far more features than nv: EXA, XRender, XV and even 3D, > features needed by > modern desktop > (see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix) > > Worse, nv doesn't actually support all cars than xorg claims it supports > just look at nv_driver.c::NVIsSupported() > In Mandriva, we've our own PCI listing to driver mapping where we regularly > have to use something other than nv for nivida card since nv didn't supported > them (see eg: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59178) > > Sometimes I had to send patches to NVidia's Aaron to get nv to actually > recognize > some card. See eg https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50398 > => https://bzattachment.mandriva.com/attachment.cgi?id=15325
Please make that dependant on the operationg system. As far as I know nouveau only works on Linux so far. nv is still better than vesa on a whole range of cards for those other OSes. I hope I didnt miss a commit that removed the ability to use nv in master. -- Matthieu Herrb _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
