Nouveau Status Update

[Michael]

The free NVIDIA driver (the nouveau project) status page has been updated recently.
It seems they have a working 2D driver and the 3D driver has been reported as now compiling.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/UserStatus

[colo]

They are looking for testers with GeForce 8800-Series video cards. Join #nouveau (irc://irc.freenode.net/nouveau) on irc.freenode.net if you're able and willing to help.

[sobkas]

So it's merged into mesa and drm main trees.
http://airlied.livejournal.com/37578.html