Nouveau Driver Q&A | Linux Today

Nouveau Driver Q&A

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 5, 2007

[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]

I would like to know if there is some list of cards
that the driver will support? Actually, it’s to know if the old
cards like the GeForce 2 GTS will be supported and what these kind
of cards will be able to do, if it will support for example
compiz-fusion or not (yeah, I’m dreaming).

“We try to support all cards from NV04 (Riva TNT) up to the
newest 8800 / 8600 cards. Obviously the older the card is, the more
features will have to be emulated by software but accelerated 3D
should be available in the end for all cards…”


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