Nouveau: 14 Commits In 9 Hours

Posted by Michael Larabel on September 04, 2007

After reading the Nouveau Question and Answer, if you're interested in trying out this open-source NVIDIA driver be sure to check out the latest git code. Over the past nine hours there have been 14 commits so far. These commits change such things as PCI rework compatibility, eliminating XAA support, NVIDIA GeForce 8 improvements, and in traditional open-source fashion a number of bugs have been fixed. Find out more on the Nouveau git summary.

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