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From: Davyd McColl <davydm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:18:57
Message-Id: 164c8945e20.278f.83c5c26c404a765ed2e55e3ab0c1c65d@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ? by R0b0t1
1 Definitely Nouveau. I tried (really hard) to stick to proper open-source
2 all the way. But the culprit became abundantly clear when I switched to
3 proprietary and never again had a lockup. Ever.
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5 And there are plenty of other users on the interwebs with the same sad story.
6
7 -d
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10 On July 23, 2018 21:11:33 R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
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12 > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Andrey F. <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote:
13 >> My experience is the same. Things are super fast with Nouveau, but the
14 >> random system-wide lock ups were unbearable. I'm a KDE plasma user as well.
15 >> My last experience was about 6 months ago.
16 >>
17 >> I wonder if there is anything we can do to help solve the lockup issues in
18 >> the long run with Nouveau.
19 >>
20 >
21 > I experienced these lockups using Plasma without Nouveau (in a VM,
22 > with the VBox drivers). Is everyone sure it is Nouveau that is to
23 > blame?
24 >
25 > My understanding is it works perfectly save some of the advanced 3D rendering.
26 >
27 > Cheers,
28 > R0b0t1
29 >

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