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Of course the real problem lies upstream: There is a driver that claims supporting hardware, so Xorg doesn't fall back to VESA. And there is no way I know of to tell Xorg to prefer VESA to nouveau without breaking autodetection of any other hardware. Quote:
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But then you will have to instruct people preferring nouveau to remove the line "nouveau modeset=0" otherwise they won't be able to use it at all. |
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nVidia quite often doesnt have linux support with its closed binary drivers from day 1 of release of any given card. Nouveau not supporting new hardware for a while untill after release is something that could be fixed fairly easily, but we are back to 'nVidia doesnt give half a damn about open source'. Quote:
You might have been fooled by nVidia still releasing stuff like 'updated' 71.XX drivers for linux (for vanta/riva/TNT/TNT2/GF1/GF3 cards). Guess what, even though they release newer drivers, they are not updated to work with newer xorg versions.......which makes them basicly useless. 96.XX (GF2-GF4) is going the same way. I havent checked if the newest release of the 96.XX drivers work with the newest xorg vesion....even if it does there was well over a year where the 96.XX drivers did not support the currect xorg versions. Even 173.XX (GF-FX) has long periods where its not supporting the newest xorg versions either. |
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There are other video cards besides nvida and radeon, GNU/Linux users should look for them and avoid all the thouble. Who here have tried any other? What about Matrox? Cirrus? I really feel we are stuck on this because we have been only buying this kind of products, so we got ourselves in this situation, some manufacturers just stop making alternatives because we dont buy their products, check this: http://www.3dlabs.com/content/legacy/ We really should stop support corporations like nvidia and look for alternatives. If we want a change then we have to make it happen. Regards |
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