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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We do in fact provide the -nouveau driver as an option in Ubuntu, just
as we also provide -nvidia as an option.  Note that the *default* driver
is -nv and that's what is used when loading the CD.  In addition to
supporting users that pick -nouveau, we also have tested it in hopes to
switch to it as the default driver in place of -nv, however we found it
far too unstable across the various cards we tested.  I'm not optimistic
it will be able to replace -nv any time soon, but would be thrilled to
see it stablize enough to do so.

Regarding your wish that Ubuntu will drop all proprietary software and
give the user a 100% open source experience, I think that is really out
of scope for a bug report.  To be honest, unless there is an open source
solution which is all-around better than proprietary driver options, I
don't think it is likely we would do this.

Instead, if you care deeply about this issue, what I would suggest for
you is to run the xorg-edgers repository with nouveau installed, and
provide feedback and bug reports to the upstream nouveau developers, to
help them make a better product.  This would enable Ubuntu to switch to
-nouveau instead of -nv as the default open source driver for Ubuntu.
My hope would be then that -nouveau would be good enough that many users
would simply not bother to install -nvidia at that point even though
they still have it as a post-installation option.

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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Replace Nvidia Drivers & Support Nouveau 
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