Is nouveau default nvidia driver?

[Art Edwards]

On 04/06/2012 02:14 PM, katrina warsaw wrote:
> natty is 11.04 , you should consider to upgrade to oneiric 11.10 (not
> to 12.04 because it's beta version).
>
> 2012/4/5 Art Edwards <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com
> <mailto:edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com>>
>
>     On 04/05/2012 02:23 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>     > Art Edwards wrote:
>     >
>     >> After an update from a version with the proprietary driver, I found
>     >> nouveau was there instead. Is the the ubuntu policy?
>     >>
>     > Well, Ubuntu policy is to prefer nouvau to proprietary, but not to
>     > replace one with the other without your say-so.
>     >
>     > What did you upgrade? It could be that the proprietary driver wasn't
>     > compatible with one of the new things and so you've fallen back to
>     > noveau.
>     >
>     This was a dist-upgrade from maverick to natty. I should point out
>     that
>     nouveau rendered the system unusable for the better part of a day,
>     on a
>     day I couldn't afford to lose. When I finally was able to diagnose the
>     problem, I was able to re-install the nvidia driver without
>     removing any
>     other packages. Given the  persistent bugs in nouveau, perhaps the
>     system should fall back to the nv driver.
>
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Natty is now working very well. I'm going to wait for a time when it
isn't critical whether I lose a day in this process.
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