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Testing Out The Nouveau Driver On Fedora 11

By Michael Larabel

“The X.Org driver’s code is obfuscated, its 2D support is
limited, there is no 3D acceleration at all, and it barely receives
new features and support these days. Meanwhile, a group of
open-source developers have been reverse-engineering NVIDIA’s
binary Linux driver to write the Nouveau driver that will offer 2D,
3D, and video acceleration and aims to be feature-complete. The
Nouveau project has been around for a few years, but their code is
starting to come to maturation with kernel mode-setting and a
Gallium3D driver hopefully being stable by year’s end.”

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