Re: [Nouveau] Should I dump my Nvidia card from the less known brand Gainward?

2014-01-11 Thread Fernando Negro
Hi there, Emil. Sorry for the long story... :) It's just that, being an outsider (i.e. not a member of this mailing-list) and someone who just came here once before, to ask another question, I thought I should sort of introduce myself. :) Unfortunately, (as I say in the link where I point

[Nouveau] Should I dump my Nvidia card from the less known brand Gainward?

2014-01-10 Thread Fernando Negro
Hi everyone. I'm a big Free Software enthusiast and, therefore, I would very much like to use the nouveau free driver, instead of the proprietary one. My problem is that, looking for the cheapest option available, when I needed to buy a new graphics card, 2 years ago, I decided for a model

Re: [Nouveau] GeForce 8400 GS (follow-up)

2013-10-08 Thread Fernando Negro
Hello, again, ilia. I already followed that same suggestion, that someone, in that forum that I linked to, made (http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nouveau-mi-eq-overflowing#comment-43713) and tried all sorts of different kernels - including the 3.11.3-gnu one - with no results. The best thing

[Nouveau] GeForce 8400 GS (follow-up)

2013-10-07 Thread Fernando Negro
Hello again, everyone. I'm the same Fernando Negro that sent a message entitled GeForce 8400 GS, three days ago. ( http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-October/014660.html) I'm sorry for having to open a new topic, in here... But, due to all the experiments with installing new

[Nouveau] GeForce 8400 GS

2013-10-03 Thread Fernando Negro
Hi everyone. I read on a 2011 article - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=nouveau_comp_2011num=19 - that my particular card, GeForce 8400 GS, overheats with nouveau. (So, I never tried using if for long, before, as soon as possible, installing the proprietary drivers...) But,