The only reason I really use nvidia-drivers is because of VDPAU. Otherwise I can't watch HD videos on my media center. VDPAU works great, and I hope nouveau supports it or something equivalent eventually. Mythtv probably uses it, though that's just a guess.
Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 On Apr 11, 2012 5:17 PM, <ny6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > > Just being curious: > > > > I use my main workstation primarily for work. > > > > Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only > > think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. > > > > I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of the > nvidia-drivers-package. > > > > What are your recommendations? > > > > Thanks, Stefan > > > > I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update > the > kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. > But > I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau > works well enough for me. > > Terry > >
