My nvidia is rather old, it's from 2007. Nouveau works fine here. A few notes:jemimah wrote:Could some people with nvidia cards please test this nouveau driver? You need to unblacklist the nouveau kernel module for it to work.
a) Before installing nouveau, Xorg (with nv driver) doesn't work for me. It detects the card, but fails to display (frequency out of range). Xvesa works fine in non-native resolution of my panel.
b) After installing nouveau (and un-blacklist it), text console is gone until I do "modprobe fbcon" (this is a rather old issue and is true for all KMS-based drivers)
c) After installing nouveau, and loading fbcon, if I run Xvesa, I still lose the text console and can't get it back
d) After installing nouveau, and running xorgwizard, everything works fine (xorgwizard detects nouveau directly), and I can run in native resolution.
Conclusion - nouveau works for me. Posting this from the machine running nouveau.