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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 06:49:09 +0000 (UTC), Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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>> nvidia legacy drivers? |
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>> In the latter case you are doomed... |
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>> I also had to throw out recently an nvidia card because of this. |
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> Was nouveau not an option. |
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No. It seems, nouvau is lost without support from nvidia: |
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Despite the "matrix" on nouveau claims since many years |
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that the card be "fully" supported, it practically never got |
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over crashes. The actual progress over several years was from |
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1. immediate kernel panic during booting, over |
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2. booting but not running X, to |
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3. running X but displaying only gray, to |
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4. running X but halting the machine (or at least X) with |
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a chance of ~30% when doing daring things like opening a window |
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or writing text in a window. Latest versions before I dumped |
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the card got me back to |
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5. Start over with 1. |
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On another machine (with a newer graphics card), DPMS state is |
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not kept for longer than a few seconds, and despite I reported |
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the issue and had a lot of work testing with patched kernels, |
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it apparently could not be fixed; it is still not working. |
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Of course, things like googleearth etc. do not work at all |
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(well, after a few minutes the first picture of the rotating |
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earth was finally finished, and the next picture started to |
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be drawn... new versions of googleearth crash now immediately.) |
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My experience: Completely unusable for both cards, even if I am |
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willing to make a lot of compromise. |
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