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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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>> Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6p01@×××××.com: |
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>>> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the |
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>>> kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But |
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>>> I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau |
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>>> works well enough for me. |
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>> See my other reply: Nikos hit the point. |
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> I actually changed to nouveau because the desktop performance of |
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> nvidia-drivers sucked at the time. I still use nvidia-drivers in my |
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> media center (because of VDPAU), but in my desktop I changed about |
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> year and a half ago, and I'm pretty happy with it. |
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> Before that, I used nvidia-drivers for many years, and it was always |
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> full of ups and downs; some versions worked great, others were barely |
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> usable. The nouveau drivers have been consistently good, even for |
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> small 3D use (things like Blender). |
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> If you don't use (modern) games, I highly recommend the nouveau |
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> drivers. For a modern desktop they work great. |
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Relevant to the thread, I believe: |
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"Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State" |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_linux_stable&num=1 |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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