Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>]

Hi,

With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core
to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet
there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices
found when usign nouveau driver as prior to the update.  However using
fbdev instead worked out.

I'm wondering if this is just because the nouveau driver is buggy (it
comes from experimental after all), or because it's been deprecated in
favor of fbdev.  Actually fbdev driver is detecting nouveaufb:

[ 15133.442] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: nouveaufb (video memory: 9000kB)

So perhaps that's the way of noveau now, though if so, it's confusing
the driver nouveau is still avialable.  Perhaps just a bug on the new
driver, :-)

Thanks,

-- 
Javier.