Re: [Debian Wiki] Update of "XStrikeForce/FAQ" by AurélienCouderc
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:32:18 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-05-13 22:02 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:36:10 -0000, Debian Wiki wrote:
> >
> >> + This is the case for most AMD/ATI and Intel graphic chips with
> >> their default Xorg drivers. nVidia users will need to install the
> >> proprietary driver.
> >
> > The nouveau DRI driver should support that from wheezy onwards.
>
> The nouveau DRI driver does indeed support that, but is itself
> unsupported and not installed by default, so things will not work out of
> the box for NVidia users. And realistically, we can neither fix bugs in
> it on our own nor tell people to report them upstream, because any
> released Mesa version is "from the stone age" from the Nouveau
> developers' POV.
>
Well we can tell people to try and reproduce with git master, and report
their bug upstream if it's still there. That's at least better than
before
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs?action=diff&rev2=6&rev1=5
and hopefully it'll be in an okay shape by the time wheezy ships.
Cheers,
Julien
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