[arch-general] Is Nouveau 2D or 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards?

fredbezies fredbezies at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 00:31:46 EDT 2012


Le 29 août 2012 05:26, "Kelvin" <kelvin9302104 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 2012/8/29 Brandon Watkins <bwat47 at gmail.com>
>
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Kelvin <kelvin9302104 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > > The description of package xf86-video-nouveau (
> > > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xf86-video-nouveau) is
> > > "Open
> > > Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia cards", but Arch Wiki(
> > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau) says that it is "Open
> > Source
> > > 3D acceleration graphics driver for NVIDIA cards". Is there any
mistakes?
> > >
> > Both. afiak it started out as a 2d driver, but these days it also has
> > [limited] 3d acceleration.
> >
> Thanks. I found this page after I have posted this.
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
> The support is really very limited.

Sure. But at least, screen capture fully works, not only full screen. Try
taking à single window screenshot with nvidia drivers... Result is very...
unuseful. Don't remember bug number, but look on archlinux bug tracker.


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