Noveau - the Good and Bad News

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 07:20:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 16:11 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> The good news:  I was running Noveau and didn't notice any
> problems with what it does.
> 
> The bad news:  Compared to Nvidia, Noveau is 0 for three.
> No fan control - it still roars.
> No compiz.
> Flightgear unusable.

Also on my machine with nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev
a1) (as reported by lspci) the nouveau driver breaks resume from suspend
and hibernate, which works with the nvidia proprietary driver fine.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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