Re: Nvidia cards
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:38:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
> > Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
>
> The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package
> repository. I think the "nouveau" X11 driver is also being packaged by a DD
> but is not in, or scheduled to be in any release of Debian.
>
> The "nvidia" X11 driver and the kernel module of the same name are part of the
> non-free repository. These packages are second-class citizens; their closed-
> source nature makes it impossible to resolve non-packaging issues within
> Debian.
There's also the free reimplementation: Nouveau . Though it's currently
only in Experimental.
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