Nouveau is an open source project. It aims to get 3D acceleration from nVidia cards. nVidia is a company that makes graphics cards. nVidia writes software that runs on the cards but copywrites this software. Open source software is not copywrited and is written by groups such as nouveau. If nouveau is successful, I will be able to use my Microsoft Xbox to push high-definition video to my television. The Xbox has an nVidia card and tv-out, but without hardware acceleration, it will not be able to put high-def on the screen. An Xbox is ideal for use as a MythTV frontend. MythTV is basically TiVo.
nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki
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