[PATCH] autoconfig: select nouveau by default for NVIDIA GPUs

[Matthieu Herrb]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:09:09AM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 
> This patch default to a proper driver for nvidia cards considering that:
> - nv development is over and it's no more supported by nivdia who "owns" most of its commiters
> - nouveau offer far more features than nv: EXA, XRender, XV and even 3D, features needed by
>   modern desktop
>   (see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix)
> 
> Worse, nv doesn't actually support all cars than xorg claims it supports
> just look at nv_driver.c::NVIsSupported()
> In Mandriva, we've our own PCI listing to driver mapping where we regularly
> have to use something other than nv for nivida card since nv didn't supported
> them (see eg: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59178)
> 
> Sometimes I had to send patches to NVidia's Aaron to get nv to actually recognize
> some card. See eg https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50398
> => https://bzattachment.mandriva.com/attachment.cgi?id=15325

Please make that dependant on the operationg system. As far as I know
nouveau only works on Linux so far.

nv is still better than vesa on a whole range of cards for those other
OSes.

I hope I didnt miss a commit that removed the ability to use nv in
master.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb