On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:57:40PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dutch Ingraham <s...@gmx.us> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:52:57AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wednesday 15 Jun 2016 11:05:13 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > You can't use the nouveau drivers and the nvidia driver at the same > > > > > time, so this is the problem. I did try that once, but at the time > > > > > which was quite a while ago, it didn't work. > > > > > > > > Perhaps I've missed it, but is there any reason you must have > > > > nvidia-drivers > > > > rather than nouveau? > > > > > > I have a nvidia card, so I need the nvidia drivers, unless I am missinng > > > something? > > > > The nvidia drivers are the proprietary drivers produced by NVIDIA; the > > nouveau drivers are the open-source version. Typically, the nouveau > > driver works as well as the nouveau, except in some high-intensity > > (generally 3D) environments. As you know, you cannot use both at the > > same time, but you can have them installed at the same time. Just > > blacklist the kernel modules of one or the other to test each. > > If I wanted to do that, do I need to change opengl to xorg to use > nouveau?
I'm sure there are xorg and graphics experts on this list more suited to answer this than me, but they would likely need a lot more information on your installed applications to fully answer. A good place to start would be the Arch Linux Wiki on nouveau [1], which seems to indicate some mesa packages would be needed for opengl support. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau
