Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

[Andrey F.]

My experience is the same. Things are super fast with Nouveau, but the
random system-wide lock ups were unbearable. I'm a KDE plasma user as well.
My last experience was about 6 months ago.

I wonder if there is anything we can do to help solve the lockup issues in
the long run with Nouveau.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 04:20 Davyd McColl <davydm@×××××.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, my experience with Nouveau has been dismal.
>
> I use KDE plasma, which runs everything via accelerated graphics and I
> would encounter system-wide lockups within 2 hours, often much closer to
> within 10 minutes.
> Nouveau has better terminal support though, supporting the higher
> resolutions that the proprietary driver can't be bothered to support. So
> if
> you have a vt-only use-case, it's a win. But otherwise, I'm very wary.
> Granted, the last time I tried was about a year ago, but the troubles I
> had
> been experiencing were common with other users for long before that.
>
> You could give it a try and see.
>
> As for usage, iirc, if it's enabled in your kernel config, it's loaded by
> default, even if the proprietary drivers are installed. I blacklisted the
> Nouveau module to get the proprietary one loaded (so that I could switch
> back after a kernel update to see if it worked properly then). Again,
> things may have changed from when I last tried, but I think you should be
> able to enable, build and reboot to have it loaded already (obviously, you
> could rmmod and modprobe if the idea of a reboot doesn't sit well)
>
> -d
>
>
> On July 23, 2018 12:17:53 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> > Among my efforts to get scanning working again with Gentoo,
> > I've encountered another problem in a different area.
> > Recently, I sent a message to this list re Nvidia-drivers
> > -- that 396.24-r1 wouldn't start with my 4.14.52 kernel,
> > so I started using 390.67 -- & I've now discovered that there's a problem
> > with any version of Nvidia & my previous 4.9.16 & 4.2.0-r1 kernels.
> >
> > Might I be better off, if I used Nouveau instead ?
> > It is what Mint 17 & 19 seem to use, so must be fairly stable.
> > So a few questions :
> >
> > (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ?
> >     -- does it work easily with various kernels ?
> >     -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ?
> >     -- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound.
> >
> > (2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ?
> >
> > (3) Sadly, I didn't make a Quickpkg of the Nvidia version I was using
> > when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626).
> > I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds :
> > is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ?
> >
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