Nvidia 173.08 and Rawhide

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 03:25 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
>> If nv or nouveau work for your setup I suggest waiting, there really is no good 
>> advantage to nvidia's 2d setup unless you have major performance issues on 
>> either of the other options.
> 
> What is the difference between nv and nouveau drivers?  Is nouveau like
> the radeonhd (newer) driver or something?  
> 
> I have a mb which has the nforce 430 (I think) with geforce 6100 (again,
> I think) series driver.  nv is detected and used, but would nouveau work
> better?

nv is the upstream Xorg 2D driver maintained by Nvidia. Nouveau is the 
ongoing effort to create 3D drivers via reverse engineering.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage

Rahul