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Dr Valdés, I'd really like to know more. Are you using a compositor; what |
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desktop environment? If I had had the positive experience you speak of, I |
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would adopt Nouveau in a heartbeat. Nvidia has clearly shown their lack of |
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interest in the Linux community by shunning higher console resolutions, |
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leaving a display port blanking bug unresolved for about 2 years and |
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haphazardly fixing bugs with features reported to be working on |
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miscellaneous branches of the driver, unreleased to the unwashed masses |
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(read up about Vulkan support, esp vs Rise of the Tomb Raider). |
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I would accept a framerate hit for an open-source driver. But rebooting my |
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main machine daily is off the cards. If I wanted that, I'd use that other |
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OS. I develop on that other OS, but my development machine can be rebooted |
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any time. My home machine has shit to get done. |
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-d |
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On July 23, 2018 18:54:17 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:17 PM Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> [...] |
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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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> -- |
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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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