[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 14:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS > fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary > drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your > GPU will be running full-on c

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 11:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ? Ther

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 02:43, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: >> >> Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not >> had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers >> fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a >> xorg.conf any more.

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> >>> Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS >>> fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary >>> drivers perform

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:38, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Note however that it's not obvious which version of nvidia-drivers to > use. NVidia provides various different series of drivers. The drivers > are versioned 96.*, 173.* and 295.*, and each version series is intended > for different cards. > > I

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:29, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: What are your recommendations? Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS > fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary > drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your > GPU will be running full-on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> What are your recommendations? > > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a > KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The > binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With > Nouvea

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/12 23:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of th