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"J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> writes: |
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> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: |
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>> Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de> writes: |
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>> > I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with |
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>> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. |
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>> I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay, but every upgrade I |
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>> would have to fiddle with it again. |
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>> I switched to the Nouveau driver and I'm very glad I did. "Conventional |
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>> wisdom" says Nouveau quality is lower than Nvidia, but I found it worked |
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>> better on some things (Second Life). |
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>> As someone else pointed out, with Nouveau the GPU remains on all the |
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>> time consuming power. This is the downside. |
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>> If ease-of-use and/or open licensing are more important to you than top |
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>> rendering quality and power consumption, consider using Nouveau. |
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> I've been using bumblebee for over a year now. (First laptop with Optimus) and |
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> not had any issues. It always works as advertised. |
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> What issues did you experience? |
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I remember more than once changing bumblebee.conf during an upgrade, |
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when the service failed to start. This is over two years ago now, so I |
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don't remember any more than that. |
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You could tell me that bumblebee is now stable and rock-solid, but I |
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still wouldn't switch from Nouveau. I've had a good experience, and |
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open source matters to me. |
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On top of that, this laptop has only a year or so left before I replace |
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it, and I know now to avoid Optimus entirely in the future. |
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> Joost |
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Erik Mackdanz |
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