nouveau, a driver for Nvidia graphic cards

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This version includes Nouveau, a driver for Nvidia graphic cards,
the one major GPU vendor without opensource drivers in the Linux
kernel. Being developed since 2006, it has 26,000 LoC (not counting the
Mesa stuff and the rest of the DRM stack). Nvidia has not contributed
to this driver, it has been reverse-engineered. Graphic cards are one
of the most complex pieces of hardware that you can find in modern
computers, it's difficult to write drivers for them even having all the
docs. So the developers of Nouveau deserve a big applause.
Nouveau is important because opensource is the
one way to get good long term support for your graphic card. The new
and powerful graphic card you've bought today will be unsupported in a
few years. This doesn't happen with open source drivers, Nouveau (and
ATI open source drivers) support today more devices than the official
propietary drivers: for example, Riva TNT and Geforce 2/4MX/4Ti/FX.
the detail can refer to : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage#Docs
the documents have so many information about the linux video history and technic report.
               
               
               

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