[arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

[Stefan Wilkens]

2012/1/15 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> [snip]
> It's good that Arch Linux still provide the nv driver, at least Debian
> dropped it, but it's known that nouveau doesn't work for many users,
> that there at least is the need to offend the GPL to use the proprietary
> driver with a kernel-rt, while at the same time an important DE will
> force people to use 3D acceleration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ralf
>

Slight deviation from the topic here, but relevant:

Work is being done[1] to provide gnome-shell's functionality to users
without the requirement of GPU acceleration, this is done through the
LLVMPipe software rasterizer. This does place a SSE2 requirement on
the CPU but that shouldn't be an issue these days. (pentium 4 and up,
amd K8 and up)

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering