[Nouveau] Nouveau on GeForce 7950GTX (NV49)

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On 6/5/08, Ross Vandegrift <ross at kallisti.us> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  I just finished installing the current git of the nouveau driver for
>  my NV49 based 7950GTX.  I attempted this because I've been continually
>  frustrated by the constantly degrading 2D performance of X under the
>  nvidia and nv drivers.  Webpages that do any kind of compositing in
>  Mozilla will burn CPU all day long.
>
>  I'm happy to say that I'm writing because I didn't have any problems.
>  Installation per the wiki was easy and sensible against the current
>  git of Linus's 2.6 kernel branch and the current mesa drm.  Xv is the
>  only other thing I might possibly care about, and it's working well
>  too.
>
>  The performance is great compared to the alternatives!  Thanks!
>
>
>  In the wiki, I noticed that the Debian installation instructions are
>  considered out of date.  Why is this?  Everything in them is accurate
>  for contemporary Debian, modulo one minor detail.

Partially because you can use the Ubuntu packages from my PPA (with a
rebuild) to get proper packages, and partially because nouveau
packages have just been uploaded to Debian experimental.