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AMD's R300 Gallium3D Driver Is Looking Good For 2011
With Fedora 13 if I remember right you still need to install the experimental 3D driver package for the Gallium3D driver, though in F14 it might be there by default.
In F13 the experimental package only contains the nouveau gallium driver.
In rawhide gallium is enabled by default, don't know about F14
To clarify the Fedora situation: as of Fedora 14, r300g is the default driver (actually there's no way to choose r300c any more, it's not in the package). I believe this change was made back in June, though it may actually have been September (the changelog is a little unclear). To be fair to Michael, you could still characterize this as 'preparing', because F14 isn't released yet.
The nouveau Gallium driver is still in mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, I'm not sure when Ben is planning to mark it as not-experimental any more. But it actually works pretty well on a lot of hardware now. I'm running GNOME Shell on it as I type this.
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