Call for testing: nouveau open-source nvidia driver

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Christopher,

Christopher James Halse Rogers [2010-02-03 21:50 +1100]:
> We're aiming to ship Nouveau as the default driver for nVidia cards in
> Lucid as a better nv.  Towards this end there are now packages ready
> for wider testing in the xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA[1].

That's great to hear! Many thanks for your efforts there.

> You should not expect to work:
>  * The nvidia binary drivers.  The nouveau kernel module will bind to
> the hardware and there is no mechanism for handing off to nvidia
> kernel module.

Would it be possible to integrate that into the alternatives system
that Alberto built for nv vs. the various nvidia binary driver
versions? They also ship a kernel module which binds the device, after
all.

Thanks,

Martin

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