news 28 Posted August 6, 2011 At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1 ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=16284 Summary: "Besides boosting the Intel Sandy Bridge performance, the Linux 3.1 kernel is also great for open-source graphics in that it has improved support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" graphics cards via the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. The Linux kernel has already supported kernel mode-setting for these GPUs and then more recently there was 2D/X-Video acceleration as well as 3D acceleration when paired with the Nouveau Gallium3D "NVC0" driver. The accelerated support though has required manually extracting the graphics processor's microcode after the GPU was initialized by the proprietary driver. With the Linux 3.1 kernel, Nouveau can generate its own "FUC" microcode to circumvent this problem. In other words, there is now "out of the box" open-source support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 graphics cards." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may Share this post Link to post
