On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger > <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: > > > >> 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. > > > > See my other reply: Nikos hit the point. > > I actually changed to nouveau because the desktop performance of > nvidia-drivers sucked at the time. I still use nvidia-drivers in my > media center (because of VDPAU), but in my desktop I changed about > year and a half ago, and I'm pretty happy with it. > > Before that, I used nvidia-drivers for many years, and it was always > full of ups and downs; some versions worked great, others were barely > usable. The nouveau drivers have been consistently good, even for > small 3D use (things like Blender). > > If you don't use (modern) games, I highly recommend the nouveau > drivers. For a modern desktop they work great. I'll second that. I don't need blazing fast 3D performance, I do need stable drivers that keep pace with kernel releases. I got tired of having to remember to fully test nvidia-drivers every time I did a kernel upgrade so switched to nouveau. That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. The other killer was that I could never get nvidia-drivers to deal with a multi-monitor setup in any kind of sane fashion. nVidia does do multi-monitor, it just wants to present it in a way that made no sense to me at all. Even something as simple as unplugging my desk monitor and going to a meeting room to do a presentation on the projector required an X restart. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
