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On 04/16/2014 05:06 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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>> The new driver's been running OK so far. |
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>> Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. |
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>> Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if |
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>> it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM |
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>> onboard. |
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> It may be from the RAM/CPU if the video is high-resolution. Nouveau |
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> still has to do a lot of things in software that the proprietary driver |
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> does in hardware. If sys-process/htop shows 100% CPU or RAM usage, |
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> that's probably it. To rule out the network you can try net-misc/youtube-dl. |
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>> Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I |
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>> previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary? |
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> Not necessary (there's no nouveau USE flags at the moment). |
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Understood. Thanks. I'll check those options out. |
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