Nouveau, followup

I blogged yesterday about trying out nouveau semi-successfully on my laptop. The driver is very new and not ready yet, so I did expect bugs when trying it out; and I was not let down. Or perhaps I was, depending on your point of view.

Anyway, mostly it's been a pleasant experience. Originally, using the nouveau driver would cause a full system lockup when shutting down the X server; but after I followed the suggestion by someone over on #nouveau on freenode that I try offb rather than nvidiafb, that problem was fixed. There's some weirdness going on still (such as the default font being thicker and larger, and the fact that moving windows to a second screen doesn't seem to work properly), but other than that, it seems to work.

I'll be using nouveau for a while now, and hopefully reporting any bugs I find. This should be good.