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The project New, which seeks to provide free software drivers for nVidia graphics cards, has since version 3.8 (development) of the Linux kernel everything necessary to allow 3D graphics acceleration on the entire range of GeForce cards.
With this advance, they are all free drivers majority those who support 3D acceleration. |
Free drivers for Intel and AMD chipsets have long supported 3D acceleration, but, until now, Nouveau drivers only supported 2D acceleration and were therefore unsuitable for games or hardware rendering of desktop 3D effects and applications.
Although still in an experimental phase, the 3.8 kernel already integrates the new drivers and they will be available in the majority distros shortly.
It is worth clarifying that Nouveau already had graphics acceleration functions for a long time, but some mid- and high-end cards required manual adjustments and, sometimes, copying the closed firmware of the nVidia drivers.
On the other hand, this does not mean that the Nouveau driver has yet reached the performance of that of nVidia and, for example, the lack of fan management (still in development) makes the Nouveau-managed cards quite noisy. However, it can be said that 3D graphics in Linux now work on almost all graphics chips from nVidia, AMD (in which progress continues in cooperation with AMD) and Intel.
Source: New
Great 😀 I'm just saving for my next PC to use an Nvidia card, so this news encourages me a lot 😀
PS: Can anyone make me a recommendation of Nvidia video cards of mid-high range that work well with the drivers? I don't want what happened to my Ati card to happen to me ...