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Old 03-29-2009, 11:00 AM
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Phoronix: Testing Out The Nouveau Driver On Fedora 11

With the forthcoming release of Fedora 11, Red Hat has made the bold (but wise) decision of replacing xf86-video-nv as the default open-source NVIDIA driver with the Nouveau driver instead. The xf86-video-nv driver is officially maintained by NVIDIA, but it's their half-assed attempt at being open-source friendly...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzE3OA
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Old 03-29-2009, 12:19 PM
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I have to say well done to both Fedora and the Nouveau developers!

It would be ironic if Nouveau got into a better state overall than the radeonhd or ati drivers =/
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Old 03-29-2009, 12:23 PM
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How is multi-monitor hotplugging support?

The proprietary Nvidia drivers always had a problem with this. If you plug in a monitor, it isn't recognized. Then, when you detect the monitor through Nvidia X Server Settings, the monitors are combined into one big screen. Maximizing a window will stretch it over all available monitors. You have to log out and restart the X server before multi-monitor works correctly.
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Old 03-29-2009, 01:34 PM
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Fantastic work done by fedora as usual.

I only wish yum was half as fast as apt, and there was a fully open source equivalent to canonical's soyuz. To bad that neither will ever happen.
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Old 03-29-2009, 02:50 PM
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Fantastic work done by fedora as usual.

I only wish yum was half as fast as apt, and there was a fully open source equivalent to canonical's soyuz. To bad that neither will ever happen.
If zypper was ported over (stalled because fedora had a rpm upgrade), I would probably switch over to fedora. Yum isn't that slow though, but zypper destroys it.
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Old 03-29-2009, 04:02 PM
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On most modern hardware yum is probably fine.

On my aspire one (atom n270, 8GiB ssd) it took over 14 hours to upgrade from fedora 10 to rawhide. This was mid February. 14 hours is far too long to upgrade to a following release.
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Old 03-29-2009, 04:12 PM
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I only wish yum was half as fast as apt
did you try any recent yum version? speed was one of the recent focus on development. Additionally, rpm 4.7 is also bringing more speed to the transaction, so I suggest you really give a spin to F11 beta (out in two days)
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Old 03-29-2009, 05:19 PM
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My experience with yum is fairly current. Fedora 10 was what I tried to upgrade to rawhide as I detailed above.

I will see if i can make it repeatable and provide more information.
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Old 03-29-2009, 05:31 PM
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This is just awesome!

A big thank you to all nouveau and fedora developers! Great work.
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Old 03-29-2009, 05:50 PM
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I have to say well done to both Fedora and the Nouveau developers!

It would be ironic if Nouveau got into a better state overall than the radeonhd or ati drivers =/
Would be nice to see it in full 3d glory
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