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[News] Stable Open Source NVIDIA Driver Coming Shortly?

  • Subject: [News] Stable Open Source NVIDIA Driver Coming Shortly?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:05:41 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Nouveau Very Close To Release?

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| Back in Nouveau Companion 30, we found out the Nouveau developers are getting 
| very close to their first stable release. This first Nouveau driver release 
| will include 2D, X-Video, and EXA acceleration across all NVIDIA graphics 
| cards from the NV05 to NV4x.   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjIwMw


Related:

Nouveau Companion 30

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| Once again, more than 2 weeks have passed and it is time for yet another 
| issue of the TiNDC. 
| 
| So we are fighting to get a first "stable" release of nouveau out as soon as 
| possible. This release will include 2D, Xv and EXA acceleration for all cards 
| from NV05 to NV4x. Owners of NV04 won't get EXA due to hardware limitations, 
| while NV5x cards (GeForce 8x00) won't get much more than working 2D and 
| hopefully working mode setting for the common cases.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=909&num=1


NVIDIA Releases Updated 2D "NV" Driver

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| NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has pushed out a new update for their open-source 
| 2D "nv" driver. 
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE0OA


More RadeonHD Driver Commits

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| Yesterday there was a huge PLL fix for the Mobility R500 and R600 series for 
| the RadeonHD driver along with some other changes and today is another batch 
| of commits.   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE0Nw


AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview

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| Whether you are using a Radeon X300 purchased a few years ago or the Radeon 
| X1950PRO, the 8.41 driver is noticeably faster. How much faster? In many 
| cases it is about 50% faster while in some configurations it may go as high 
| as 90% or more. In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was over 
| 10x faster!    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1


AMD Delivers Significant Graphics Performance and Compatibility Enhancements
for Consumer Linux Users

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| Moving forward, AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of 
| the open source community as well. 
| 
| "As client computing on Linux continues to grow so has our support and focus 
| on delivering best-in-class performance and compatibility for our products," 
| said Ben Bar-Haim, vice president of software, Graphics Product Group at AMD.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070905/20070904006432.html?.v=1


NVIDIA: Got Specifications?

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| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their 
| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense 
| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an 
| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org 
| development community. These two announcements came after intense work 
| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it 
| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its 
| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that 
| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary 
| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux 
| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market. 
| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating 
| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play 
| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three  
| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find 
| themselves in trouble down the road.              
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=831&num=1


ATI: Linux vs. Windows Vista

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| Wow! We were completely blown away when our final results came in and the 
| Linux 8.42.3 driver had outperformed Windows Vista with Catalyst 7.10 in 
| Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. It wasn't just a neck-and-neck race but Linux 
| was about 10 frames per second faster when running at 1280 x 1024 and 1680 x 
| 1050.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=897&num=3


SL Speed Showdown: Linux Tops Windoze

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| This was not a scientific study - only a small test which confirmed what I 
| thought I had "felt" already while using Second Life on my new PC. 
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http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/07/sl-speed-showdo.html


[Microsoft MVP] Foray into Feisty Fawn helped me take back my MIPS

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| Long story short - World of Warcraft runs faster under Ubuntu/Wine than 
| natively under Windows XP Professional. 
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http://msmvps.com/blogs/plenderj/archive/2007/07/14/foray-into-feisty-fawn-helped-me-take-back-my-mips.aspx

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