nVidia 7300 GT

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 05 July 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> >> I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the
> >> box using the OpenSource driver.  I have a 5000 series card in it.
> >
> >The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration.
> >What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU.
> >
> >> I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am
> >> not sure where these come from yet.  Video resolution and mouse features
> >> changed.
> >
> >FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic'
> >nvidia.com close source driver.
> >
> >> FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has.  Heck, I
> >> know Windows people that tell me the same thing.
> >
> >nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles
> >around ATI's.
> >No question about it.
> >
> >Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working,
> >3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau
> >project will cover that)
> >
> >- Gilboa
> 
> Is this Nouveau package in a testable state yet?
> 
> 

AFAIK yes (or at least playable). But far from being stable.

I plan on deploying an old PIII/GF4400 machine to be used as
test/debug-bed once I have some free time.

- Gilboa