Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
> On 2018-10-28, at 10:42, Davyd McColl wrote: > > Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. > My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not > saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held > hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. /2c > > -d We're not in good shape on either side here. I would use AMD if they had better performance on Linux with the open source driver. In terms of the long term, I don't see either open source driver supporting every device for as long as the drivers are supported. At some point there will probably be a split and then eventually those legacy drivers will be removed from the kernel due to lack of maintainers. Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
Apologies - green is nvidia and red is amd. No special code - that's just their primary marketing colors. -d On October 28, 2018 17:03:32 Philip Webb wrote: 181028 Davyd McColl wrote: 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. Sorry, I don't understand your red/green code. Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015. I looked at my local store (Canada Computers, College St, Toronto) & they offer an Asus GeForce GT1030 LP for CAD 120 : it runs at 1228 MHz & has 2 GB memory @ 3004 MHz with 64-bit i/face. My mobo is an Asus M5A97 AMD, which I bought 3 years ago . Does anyone see a problem using this card with Nvidia & my mobo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
181028 Davyd McColl wrote: >> 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. > Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. > My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. > you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. Sorry, I don't understand your red/green code. >> Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. >> I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015. I looked at my local store (Canada Computers, College St, Toronto) & they offer an Asus GeForce GT1030 LP for CAD 120 : it runs at 1228 MHz & has 2 GB memory @ 3004 MHz with 64-bit i/face. My mobo is an Asus M5A97 AMD, which I bought 3 years ago . Does anyone see a problem using this card with Nvidia & my mobo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. /2c -d On October 28, 2018 4:28:37 PM Andrew Udvare wrote: On Oct 28, 2018, at 09:53, Philip Webb wrote: Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015.
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
> On Oct 28, 2018, at 09:53, Philip Webb wrote: > > Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. > > Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015.
[gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
I updated to xorg-server-1.20.3 yesterday & ran into trouble. It wanted to update to nvidia-drivers-396.54 , which doesn't support my graphics card ( Asus GT610 : bought 150914 ) : there was an error msg in Xorg.0.log to this effect. I tried 390.67 (which I had been using before yesterday) & updating to 390.87 , but got errors with the latter "failed to initialise kernel module" (Xorg) & "nvidia : unknown symbol backlight_device_register" (kernel) ; 390.67 won't emerge with xorg-server-1.20.3 . So I'm back using Nouveau, which seems to work adequately for most things, but won't run 3D screensavers. Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
