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On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:17:40 -0400 Philip Webb 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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Yes. |
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> -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? |
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Depends on your setup. For single monitor mode it is definitely |
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yes. For multiple monitors in Xinerama mode it is usually yes. For |
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multiple monitors with multiple X screens mode it is no (segfault), |
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upstream right now is aware of the problem[1]. |
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> -- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound. |
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> (2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ? |
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1. You'll have two different Xorg configurations for nvidia and |
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nouveau (at least in Driver option in Section "Device" at its |
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settings). I usually switch between them using symlink. |
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2. eselect opengl set xorg-x11 | nvidia |
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3. I have to switch KMS on for nouveau and off for nvidia (to have |
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normal VGA console): nomodeset vga=normal (for nvidia). |
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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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Why you don't want to use the latest 390.77 (or 390.67) for stable? |
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[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106772 |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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