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On Thursday 07 July 2011 14:59:11 walt did opine thusly: |
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> On 07/06/2011 01:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > So I switched to -9999 nouveau and now I have endless shit with |
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> > crashes. But I can tolerate that and not whinge. |
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> Just today I tried the nouveau driver again after almost a year, and |
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> found no change. The test was on my elderly machine with an |
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> ancient GeForce FX 5200. I'm sure the nouveau devs lost interest |
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> in that chip long ago, so no surprise. |
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> When I run glxgears with the proprietary nvidia driver I get 3000 |
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> FPS. With nouveau I get 54 FPS. |
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> No, that's not a typo. The proprietary driver is 55 times faster |
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> than nouveau. |
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> What results are you seeing? |
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About 850 FPS or so with glxgears. |
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IIRC the nVidia driver could go to 2000+ FPS. |
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This is on a GeForce 8600M GT (NV50 generation). Outright performance |
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isn't my main interest, I don't do gaming or video rendering, I hardly |
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even watch movies at all on this notebook - YouTube twice a day is |
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about the most video stress I exert on it. And the fancy KDE candy |
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effects are disabled. |
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What I'm after is Free Software with KMS. And stable suspend/resume, I |
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consider that important. In that regard nouveau easily matches the |
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nVidia driver so I'm happy. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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