F7T4 -- I tried the Nouveau driver from the LiveCD and hit major problems

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 2 18:06:12 UTC 2007


Christopher Stone wrote:

> 
> According to the original post of this thread, it is not as stable as
> nv.  Does the nv driver render your virtual terminals busted or kill
> your gnome session as stated in the original post?  If so, then the nv
> driver is far more unstable than I had thought.

The spec is a bit outdated at this point. Things have moved ahead.

> Not only should you add a note to the release notes,

Feel free to add notes in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Xorg

  you should
> probably also add a Conflicts with compiz to try and put a minimal
> amount of n00b protection in the package.

This is over the top, violates our packaging guidelines and is not very 
user friendly.

Rahul




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