Replace Nvidia Drivers & Support Nouveau

[MM]

I hope that Ubuntu will support Nouveau to replace Nvidia drivers if it hasn't done so already!

I hope that one day Ubuntu will be able to drop all proprietary software, to give the user a complete 100% opensource experience.

[MM (mmme)]

Something I forgot to mention is that Fedora is using Nouveau for Fedora 11.

http://www.h-online.com/open/Fedora-to-use-Nouveau-driver-for-Nvidia-graphics--/news/112723

Might this also be possible to include in Karmic?

THANKS

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi dasfox,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you're using a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[MM (mmme)]

I'm not having any problems I'm asking that Ubuntu support using Nouveau drivers.

Requesting a new package for Ubuntu: (Ubuntu states):

To get a package into Ubuntu, please file a bug in Launchpad

The URL --- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

So like requesting a package I'm asking for the same...

THANKS

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We do in fact provide the -nouveau driver as an option in Ubuntu, just as we also provide -nvidia as an option. Note that the *default* driver is -nv and that's what is used when loading the CD. In addition to supporting users that pick -nouveau, we also have tested it in hopes to switch to it as the default driver in place of -nv, however we found it far too unstable across the various cards we tested. I'm not optimistic it will be able to replace -nv any time soon, but would be thrilled to see it stablize enough to do so.

Regarding your wish that Ubuntu will drop all proprietary software and give the user a 100% open source experience, I think that is really out of scope for a bug report. To be honest, unless there is an open source solution which is all-around better than proprietary driver options, I don't think it is likely we would do this.

Instead, if you care deeply about this issue, what I would suggest for you is to run the xorg-edgers repository with nouveau installed, and provide feedback and bug reports to the upstream nouveau developers, to help them make a better product. This would enable Ubuntu to switch to -nouveau instead of -nv as the default open source driver for Ubuntu. My hope would be then that -nouveau would be good enough that many users would simply not bother to install -nvidia at that point even though they still have it as a post-installation option.