Re: RFC: compat list

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 11:15 +1200, John Stowers wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 17:41 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:31 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > Hi Sergey,
> > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <svu gnome org> wrote:
> > > > Would it make sense to consolidate all HW+GL-related information
> > > > (requirements) on a single page on live.gnome.org? Minimal list of
> > > > extensions, hints ("do not use this driver, do not use those chips,
> > > > etc")
> > > I think we really do need a high level description of the current
> > > state somewhere, yes.
> > > My understanding is roughly at least for Intel "any card ≥ i915/945",
> > > though i915 is about the very minimum.  We do need to get recent data
> > > about ATI and NVIDIA; can anyone help fill in?
> > My "nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2)" seems to be
> > working very well; no issues and performance is very good.
> Can everyone please include details of whether they are using the binary
> nvidia/ati driver or the FOSS one/s (and the version if possible)

Card: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2)
Driver: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-270.41.06_k2.6.37.1_1.2-4.1.x86_64
LINUX: 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 11.4

Haven't tried with multi-head yet;  at least under GNOME 2.32 that
always disabled 3D effects.