A Nouveau 3D Driver That Works For Old NVIDIA Hardware
While there is now DRM support in the Linux 2.6.33 kernel for the Nouveau driver that carries the bits for kernel mode-setting, 2D (EXA) acceleration, and other fundamental functions on NVIDIA graphics processors, the Gallium3D driver still is incomplete. Prior to focusing solely on Gallium3D for their OpenGL acceleration, the Nouveau project was working on a DRI driver for classic Mesa, but that work was dropped in 2008 to focus entirely on Gallium3D support. This afternoon, however, a new Mesa DRI driver has emerged for Nouveau that provides *working* 3D support for older NVIDIA hardware.
Gallium3D is largely designed around modern graphics processors (particularly GPUs with shaders) and the fixed-function NVIDIA graphics hardware that came prior to this has largely suffered in Gallium3D. These old GPUs being referenced are from the NV0x, NV1x, and some NV2x series graphics processors. Rather than continuing to let this support rot for extremely old NVIDIA graphics hardware, a new Mesa driver has been constructed that provides support for these old graphics cards and implements texturing, transform and lighting, etc. Most importantly, however, is that this driver actually works right now.
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