On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 08:03:22PM +0000, nia wrote: > NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 - nouveau is stable and tear-free. This surprised > me because I have previously tried GT 640s which panicked. > NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 - nouveau panics on boot.
After being poked by kre@, I checked GT 730 again. It seems just as stable as the GT 630, so it's now my primary GPU. The panic appeared to be a thing that was only briefly an issue in -current last year. Another note: picom's glx backend seems to play poorly with nouveau, but the xrender backend is fine. > AMD Radeon HD 6450 - radeon works, but there seems to > be a problem with texture memory corruption. Not sure > if this is a driver or hardware issue with my card. > > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > in xorg.conf cleans everything up except OpenGL applications. > Video playback is fine with the "xv" video output, which > mpv recommends only as a fallback. Unfortunately I can confirm that these caveats also apply to the Radeon HD 5450 and HD 7350. Seems to be a regression from -9.
