On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:02:26AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Anyway, with nouveau I _have_to_ put a minimal Device section into > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and specify "nouveau" as the driver. I tried > > putting something similar in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ along with > > the evdev and keyboard conf files but it was ignored. So, my > > assumption that xorg.conf is no longer necessary appears to be wrong > > for those with the misfortune to use nvidia graphics cards. > > Misfortune? > > glxgears > 40441 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8088.151 FPS > > [ 866.148] (**) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size configured to be 3840 x > 1200 > [ 866.178] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (93, 95); computed from > "UseEdidDpi" X config > > It would probably be faster on a 64-bit system. But I'm not complaining. > > -- Bruce Misfortune as in "lacked decent drivers until nouveau" (mine is ppc64 as I noted, _no_ linux drivers except 'nv' until nouveau appeared. And nouveau still has issues because of the wide range of chips to reverse-engineer (I'm still subscribed to their list).
Also as in "uses too much electricity", although nowadays that applies to the 970 processor too :) I'm used to FPS that tie in with the refresh rate. I leave hyped-up video displays to gamers and fans of phoronix. Yeah, I know you need something for two monitors - I don't. Still, at least I've now got it back to a point where it seems to run (another kernel upgrade / config change today, followed by eventually getting a patch for xorg-server that isn't yet in a release [ only affects Arm and Powerpc, which have unsigned char ]. Fun, but going O/T for this list. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
