Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

Dutch Ingraham <stoa@×××.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:52:57AM -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 15 Jun 2016 11:05:13 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can't use the nouveau drivers and the nvidia driver at the same
> > > > time, so this is the problem.  I did try that once, but at the time
> > > > which was quite a while ago, it didn't work.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I've missed it, but is there any reason you must have nvidia-drivers
> > > rather than nouveau?
> >
> > I have a nvidia card, so I need the nvidia drivers, unless I am missinng
> > something?
>
> The nvidia drivers are the proprietary drivers produced by NVIDIA; the
> nouveau drivers are the open-source version.  Typically, the nouveau
> driver works as well as the nouveau, except in some high-intensity
> (generally 3D) environments.  As you know, you cannot use both at the
> same time, but you can have them installed at the same time.  Just
> blacklist the kernel modules of one or the other to test each.

If I wanted to do that, do I need to change opengl to xorg to use
nouveau?

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