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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:17 PM Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ? |
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> -- does it work easily with various kernels ? |
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Usually without any intervention from my part. |
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> -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? |
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Much more than with the NVidia binary driver, at least in my case. |
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> -- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound. |
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I watch video (both desktop and YouTube), listen to music and edit some |
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video. Also I edit some images with Inkscape and/or Gimp. And normal |
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desktop use. |
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> (2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ? |
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Basically "eselect opengl set xorg-11" or "nvidia". Also, for NVidia you |
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must add a Xorg.conf snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ so you set the NVidia |
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device for the binary driver. |
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> (3) Sadly, I didn't make a Quickpkg of the Nvidia version I was using |
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> when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626). |
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> I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds : |
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> is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ? |
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Git to the rescue: |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers?id=9a52478a2329ffce09c4c1a400934499fcb5ae93 |
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I should mention that I use GNOME. The nouveau drivers have been working |
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like a charm for GNOME for several years. |
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Regards. |
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Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de Carrera Asociado C |
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Departamento de Matemáticas |
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Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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