On 12/04/12 00:29, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
What are your recommendations?
Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a
KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The
binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With
Nouveau, your GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's
drivers will reduce clocks and voltages when the card is idle.
thanks, Nikos ... that's a plain vote for nvidia-drivers ;-)
Other than that, you might want to use Nouveau in order to test it
and file bug reports for it.
ah, you know .... short of time etc .... :-)
Note however that it's not obvious which version of nvidia-drivers to
use. NVidia provides various different series of drivers. The drivers
are versioned 96.*, 173.* and 295.*, and each version series is intended
for different cards.
If you have a relatively recent card (going back to approximately 2004),
the 295 series are for you. Better make sure though. Visit this:
http://www.nvidia.com/drivers
select Linux and your card model and it will tell you which drivers you
should use.
