I’d tried the Nouveau drivers for my NVidia GeForce Go 7400 a long time ago, and they sucked as much as the nv drivers (I’d tried to help a dev fix a few things, but without much success). I decided to ditch my proprietary drivers today to give them another whirl. I have nothing much against the proprietary drivers — they work pretty well, for the most part. My 3D acceleration is often better than the Windows drivers, though support for projectors sucks a bit.
The Nouveau drivers have improved massively. 3D is practically non-existent, but the normal X experience is very good. I even feel like my fonts are a tad smoother. The RandR12 support (which allows changing orientation etc. of you screen, in addition to picking up new monitors really smoothly) was flawless. I can’t wait for 3D support to get better. This project is really kicking butt.
