Dr Valdés, I'd really like to know more. Are you using a compositor; what
desktop environment? If I had had the positive experience you speak of, I
would adopt Nouveau in a heartbeat. Nvidia has clearly shown their lack of
interest in the Linux community by shunning higher console resolutions,
leaving a display port blanking bug unresolved for about 2 years and
haphazardly fixing bugs with features reported to be working on
miscellaneous branches of the driver, unreleased to the unwashed masses
(read up about Vulkan support, esp vs Rise of the Tomb Raider).
I would accept a framerate hit for an open-source driver. But rebooting my
main machine daily is off the cards. If I wanted that, I'd use that other
OS. I develop on that other OS, but my development machine can be rebooted
any time. My home machine has shit to get done.
-d
On July 23, 2018 18:54:17 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:17 PM Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
[...]
(1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ?
-- does it work easily with various kernels ?
Usually without any intervention from my part.
-- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ?
Much more than with the NVidia binary driver, at least in my case.
-- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound.
I watch video (both desktop and YouTube), listen to music and edit some
video. Also I edit some images with Inkscape and/or Gimp. And normal
desktop use.
(2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ?
Basically "eselect opengl set xorg-11" or "nvidia". Also, for NVidia you
must add a Xorg.conf snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ so you set the NVidia
device for the binary driver.
(3) Sadly, I didn't make a Quickpkg of the Nvidia version I was using
when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626).
I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds :
is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ?
Git to the rescue:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers?id=9a52478a2329ffce09c4c1a400934499fcb5ae93
I should mention that I use GNOME. The nouveau drivers have been working
like a charm for GNOME for several years.
Regards.
--
Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
Departamento de Matemáticas
Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
