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[News] Review/State of the Open Source Nouveau (NVIDIA Substitute) Driver

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Nouveau Companion 41

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| Just in time for the holidays is a new Nouveau Companion newsletter to update 
| the community on the status of this open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA driver that is 
| written by clean room reverse-engineering of NVIDIA's binary driver. It has 
| been a while since Nouveau Companion 40, but there is still active work going 
| into this X.Org driver. Among the topics covered in the 41st edition of the 
| Nouveau Companion is kernel mode-setting, Gallium3D, layering GEM on top of 
| TTM (similar to the GEM-ified TTM Radeon driver), and thermal monitoring code 
| for the Nouveau driver.       
| 
| Well, I bet most of you did not expect me to show up shortly before the end 
| of the year with yet another TiNDC. There has been some turmoil regarding my 
| job. At first it was too much work followed by a somewhat unexpected folding 
| of the company. So I had to find a new job, which is why I never turned up 
| for quite some time.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_companion_41&num=1


Recent:

Ubuntu 9.04 To Get Nouveau Driver

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| The Nouveau driver has been in development for several years now but with
| limited developers that are reverse-engineering NVIDIA's GPUs and there being
| no public documentation or support from NVIDIA, it has taken quite a while to
| come up with a reputable open-source driver that supports all of NVIDIA's
| hardware. Nouveau still doesn't have a stable released version of its 2D DDX
| or Mesa 3D driver, but development snapshots of it have appeared in Fedora
| and a few other distributions. With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 next April, a
| packaged version of Nouveau will finally appear in Ubuntu's repositories.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkxNg


Related:

Nouveau Companion 37

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| In the thirty-seventh edition of the Nouveau Companion, the topics covered 
| largely come down to Gallium3D, the status of the Nouveau driver for each of 
| the NVIDIA product families (primarily the GeForce 8 series), and of interest 
| is that RandR 1.2 should soon be enabled by default for this 
| reverse-engineered open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA driver.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_37&num=1


Nouveau: glxgears on NV4x

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| The exciting announcement, however, is word that the 3D driver is
| functioning with NV4x hardware and glxgears is now running. However,
| glxgears still has issues with pre-NV4x hardware. With glxgears now
| reported to function on NV4x hardware with Nouveau, we could not
| help but to try this. We had built everything from git on January
| 28, 2006, and yes, glxgears was running! The GPU was a NVIDIA 
| GeForce 6150 and the Linux distribution used was Fedora Core 6.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=634&num=1
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