Nouveau - Apr 2017 - xfree86: use modesetting driver by default on GeForce 8 and newer - Fedora

Hello

Default to xf86-video-modesetting on GeForce 8 and newer.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-server.git/commit/?id=de1c849ff18b41f53d003bb70bf8b1744b749af8

This is thrown onto users downstream, without any further explanation, why
modesetting is preferred for GeForce 8.
Is the nouveau Xorg DDX i.e. xf86-video-nouveau broken with NV50 family (Tesla)?

I mean xf86-video-nouveau works here with a couple of NV50, so what is the story
there?

On 04/25/2017 03:59 PM, poma wrote:
> Hello
>
> Default to xf86-video-modesetting on GeForce 8 and newer.
>
https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-server.git/commit/?id=de1c849ff18b41f53d003bb70bf8b1744b749af8
>
> This is thrown onto users downstream, without any further explanation, why
modesetting is preferred for GeForce 8.
> Is the nouveau Xorg DDX i.e. xf86-video-nouveau broken with NV50 family
(Tesla)?
>
> I mean xf86-video-nouveau works here with a couple of NV50, so what is the
story there?
1) xf86-video-modesetting is far better maintained than the Nouveau DDX.
2) The Nouveau DDX does not support MST connectors appearing and 
disappearing.
3) By default, Fedora already uses Wayland, and hence glamor for 
acceleration of X applications on Xwayland.  This just makes a native 
Xorg server do the same for NVIDIA GPUs (like we do already for new 
enough Intel GPUs).

Ben.
>