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

[Brandon Watkins]

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.