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Free NVIDIA Fermi Cards To Open-Source Developers
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| Prior to launching their next-generation
| graphics processors, NVIDIA dropped their
| obfuscated open-source driver and have said
| they will not provide any open-source
| support at all for their GeForce GTX 400
| "Fermi" series as they just recommended
| their customers use the X.Org VESA driver
| until they can install the official binary
| Linux driver. However, the community
| developers working on the Nouveau driver
| project still plan to support the GeForce
| GTX 470/480 graphics cards via clean-room
| reverse engineering. Today their efforts
| might be helped thanks to a hardware
| sponsorship.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE4Mg
NVIDIA 195.36.24 Linux Driver Released
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| The NVIDIA 195.36.24 release brings forward
| official GeForce GTX 470/480 (a.k.a. Fermi)
| hardware support plus Tesla C2050
| compatibility. This release also carries
| official X.Org Server 1.8 support, even
| though there has been unofficial support
| for this newest X Server release for a fair
| while when passing the X.Org Server the -
| ignoreABI argument to ignore the ABI
| differences.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE4NQ
Easily Test Driving Gallium3D In Ubuntu 10.04
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| Being dropped inside the xorg-edgers PPA is now Gallium3D drivers
| for Intel, ATI, and NVIDIA. This is different than the Gallium3D
| support found in earlier PPAs as the Intel and NVIDIA drivers have
| been added and a libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium package has been introduced,
| which makes it easier to switch to/from the classic and Gallium3D drivers.
| The Mesa stack has also been updated against the 7.9-devel
| code-base as of the 22nd of April, so it's also nice and
| fresh.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3Nw
# DtO: Drafted
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Recent:
Nvidia Releases OpenGL 4.0 Linux Drivers
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| OpenGL was released just a month days ago.
| Now, Nvidia has released its latest OpenGL
| Linux driver with full support for OpenGl
| 4.0 on GeForce GTX 480/470. In addition to
| this, Nvidia has also release four new
| OpenGL extensions which provides additional
| capabilities to developers.
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http://techie-buzz.com/foss/nvidia-releases-opengl-linux-drivers.html
The Real Need For Nouveau Power Management
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_nouveau_power&num=1
Nouveau Is Power Hungry On Desktops Too
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| This morning we talked about the real need
| for Nouveau power management as with a
| notebook bearing a NVIDIA GPU this open-
| source NVIDIA driver can easily consume
| 10~30% more power than using NVIDIA's
| official binary driver. While power
| management is more important on the mobile
| side, a quick test was carried out on a
| desktop too.
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| For this Nouveau desktop testing of the
| power consumption a AMD Sempron box was
| used running a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX.
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was used comparing its
| Nouveau KMS driver (using the Linux 2.6.32
| kernel but with the 2.6.33 DRM back-ported,
| and no Gallium3D driver in use) to the
| NVIDIA 195.36.15 binary driver. Ubuntu
| 10.04 was used for some variation in the
| test results and the Red Hat Anaconda
| installer with Fedora 13 Beta would hang
| with this AMD system when it came to
| detecting the Serial ATA hard drive.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE1Nw
Nouveau Now Switched On In Ubuntu 10.04
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| For those interested in proper OpenGL support for
| gaming or other situations, the NVIDIA binary
| driver can still be installed in Ubuntu 10.04.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODAwMg
Benchmarks Of Nouveau's Gallium3D OpenGL Driver
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| To benchmark the Gallium3D driver in Fedora
| 13 for Nouveau we fired up the Phoronix
| Test Suite and ran the OpenArena, World of
| Padman, Urban Terror, Unreal Tournament
| 2004, and Warsow test profiles. We tested
| each of these OpenGL games at five
| different resolutions: 800 x 600, 1024 x
| 768, 1280 x 1024, 1680 x 1050, and 1920 x
| 1080.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_gallium3d_first&num=1
A Nouveau 3D Driver That Works For Old NVIDIA Hardware
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| This afternoon, however, a new Mesa DRI
| driver has emerged for Nouveau that
| provides working 3D support for older
| NVIDIA hardware.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk1NA
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