From the 'freaking awesome' department - 3D support on nouveau

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So, this is insane:

Spring on Nouveau

That's Spring. What's Spring? Well, it's a fairly neat open source RTS framework that started out as a Total Annihilation clone, but more to the point, it's a pretty complex 3D game. What's cool about the picture? Well, it's in the renderer info in the console (which you probably can't quite make out, never mind). Yup, that's Spring...running on Nouveau!

Huge kudos to the whole nouveau team for this. Nouveau's 3D support recently became available in Rawhide / Fedora 13 with an update to the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. I was impressed when it ran Compiz, really impressed when it ran Neverball and Foobillard, but running Spring is nuts. Doesn't seem to manage gnome-shell yet, but I'm sure they can fix that. I admit I never expected to see things working like that in such a time frame. Obviously it's heavily hardware dependent, it doesn't run super-fast (looked like about 20-25fps, just by eyeballing it, on my 9400 GT) and I haven't stressed it much yet so it may be crashy, but still, that's incredible stuff.

edit: it also runs Quake 3. Quake fricking 3!

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Links 14/2/2010: Linux 2.6.33 RC 8, New Android Platform | Boycott Novell wrote on 2010-02-15 01:45:
[...] From the ‘freaking awesome’ department – 3D support on nouveau That’s Spring. What’s Spring? Well, it’s a fairly neat open source RTS framework that started out as a Total Annihilation clone, but more to the point, it’s a pretty complex 3D game. What’s cool about the picture? Well, it’s in the renderer info in the console (which you probably can’t quite make out, never mind). Yup, that’s Spring…running on Nouveau! [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá soporte 3D para NVIDIA | Bitelia wrote on 2010-02-15 08:00:
[...] 13 dueños de hardware 3D de NVIDIA? Entre otras cosas, que a partir de mayo podrán, al igual que Adam Williamson, jugar espectacularmente con el motor Spring para juegos [...]
Nouveau nudi eksperimentalnu 3D podršku za Fedora 13 | Programer wrote on 2010-02-15 17:33:
[...] February, 2010, 7:32 pm Red Hat zaposlenik Adam Williamson izvještava u svom blogu da “Rawhide” razvoja grana iz Fedore je nedavno počeo da nudi osnovnu i [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá soporte 3D para NVIDIA | Linux Zone wrote on 2010-02-16 18:31:
[...] de las características de este driver libre. El último ejemplo nos lo cuenta Adam Williamson en su blog, donde nos informa sobre los estupendos resultados del mencionado controlador libre con springrts o [...]
Fedora 13 bekommt freien Nvidia-Treiber mit 3D-Support – Balkoncam Blog wrote on 2010-02-16 20:08:
[...] In aktuellen Vorversionen von Fedora 13 ist eine aktualisierte Variante des Nouveau-Treibers enthalten, die experimentelle 3D-Unterstützung bietet. Ein Update im mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-Paket [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá soporte 3D para NVIDIA | Ayuda Linux wrote on 2010-02-16 22:00:
[...] de las características de este driver libre. El último ejemplo nos lo cuenta Adam Williamson en su blog, donde nos informa sobre los estupendos resultados del mencionado controlador libre con springrts o [...]
Fedora 13: Nouveau-Treiber mit 3D | HowtoForge wrote on 2010-02-17 09:48:
[...] Williamson, ein Entwickler, schreibt in seinem Blog, dass der Code mit Compiz Neverball und Foobilliard funktioniert. Aber: die Shell, die aktuell in [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá Nouveau con soporte 3D « El Blog de Rigo wrote on 2010-02-18 10:14:
[...] ahora finalmente trae soporte de aceleración 3D gracias a la libería Gallium3D. Y como ya está comenzando a reportarse, los avances conseguidos por Nouveau son destacables, incluyendo soporte completo de [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá Nouveau con soporte 3D « Software Libres, Mangas y animes ….. son Los lazos que nos unen a los que visitan esta bitacora wrote on 2010-02-19 15:15:
[...] ahora finalmente trae soporte de aceleración 3D gracias a la libería Gallium3D. Y como ya está comenzando a reportarse, los avances conseguidos por Nouveau son destacables, incluyendo soporte completo de [...]
» Eksperymentalne sterowniki Nouveau z obsługą 3D w Fedorze 13 Fedora Reloaded wrote on 2010-02-23 17:40:
[...] 3D na wybranych układach graficznych Nvidii. O sukcesie i postępach w pracach informuje w osobistym blogu zatrudniony w Red Hacie i odpowiedzialny za kontrolę jakości (QA/Quality Assurance) programista [...]
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » The Mint Newsletter – issue 101 wrote on 2010-03-05 22:03:
[...] 3D support on nouveau [...]
FOSS for Life » Blog Archive » Bảy lý do hay để nâng cấp lên Fedora 13 wrote on 2010-05-25 16:57:
[...] chức năng cho trình điều khiển đóng. Trải qua một quá trình xây dựng, Nouveau bắt đầu hỗ trợ 3D. Chức năng này vẫn ở mức độ thử nghiệm, nhưng người dùng có thể lấy gói [...]
Fedora 13 incluirá soporte 3D para NVIDIA – Usemos Linux wrote on 2016-04-22 14:14:
[…] 13 dueños de hardware 3D de NVIDIA? Entre otras cosas, que a partir de mayo podrán, al igual que Adam Williamson, jugar espectacularmente con el motor Spring para juegos […]