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Bug#660983: Licensed Symbol Conflicts with Some Non-GPL Modules



On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 11:53 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2012 11:18:12 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > David Baron wrote:
> > > Most of the discussion of the -rt seems to be amount linux-audio-users
> > > and such. I am not in touch with NC or process control but these will
> > > want it also. I believe that they would also be involved with non-gpl
> > > software.
> > 
> > Sorry to have veered so far off-topic.  I believe many -rt
> > applications have programs in userspace talking to hardware (for
> > example using a serial port).
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > I like nouveau very much but unfortunately, there is no openGL in it.
> > 
> > Depends on your card.
> > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers
> 
> Looked this over, interesting, though I have never figured out how to do 
> anything explicitely involving the Gallium stuff.
> 
> What is the status of Nouveau on Debian Sid and on Experimental for 3.1 and 
> 3.2 kernels. Easy enough to try out but I have not had hardware 3D in the past 
> with 2.6 kernels.
[...]

My work desktop runs Fedora 16 and has GNOME Shell working with nouveau
in Linux 3.2.  So I would expect nouveau 3D acceleration to work
properly in wheezy/sid as well.  But it's possible that Fedora has some
patches in this area.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.

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