Is nouveau driver enabled in Fedora 12?

[MTK]

I just upgraded to Fedora 12 and I have an Nvidia graphics card. I wonder if nouveau is enabled now, because I don't know how to find out.

The only thing I know is that desktop effects cannot be enabled.

And I wish not to have to go with Nvidia's driver because it has it's own settings that take over the os's, and it's proprietary.

[coopstah13]

according to My experiments with Linux: Fedora 12 Beta, nouveau graphics driver and screen corruption it has replaced nv by default since fedora 11

[MTK]

Then why don't desktop effects work and games like Supertux peg the CPU and go at 2-4 FPS?

I also would like to know how to see/change what video driver I am using. I only know how to do it with xorg.conf, but Fedora doesn't have it.

That reminds me that I would like to have a way to use the command line if X doesn't work, but Fedora has a graphical login.

[coopstah13]

nouveau has no 3d support

[MTK]

I thought that Supertux is 2D?

[coopstah13]

3d support means anything using opengl, which would be desktop effects and most likely supertux

[MTK]

So I guess I need the Nvidia driver even for decent 2D.

I remember that X needs not to be running during the driver installation, how do you do that with Fedora's X (not command-line) login?

[coopstah13]

switch to a console, login, stop gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm stop)

[MTK]

What is gdm?

[coopstah13]

gnome display manager, you can easily start in text mode by editing /etc/inittab and changing the default runlevel from 5 back to 3
id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: