On 01/06/2015 08:32 PM, poma wrote:
It has always been my understanding that the proprietary drivers make extensive use of the video cards hardware acceleration features where available, whereas the nouveau driver never has.On 06.01.2015 09:33, Stephen Morris wrote:My experience with the proprietary driver and nouveau driver using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 graphics card and KDE is that compared to the proprietary driver the nouveau driver is horribly slow. I have on occasion had to use the nouveau driver when I have updated the kernel and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of fedora F18 to F21, and the system was extremely sluggish with the nouveau driver. Even opening the Kmenu in the task bar was extremely slow. I have in the past also tried to run Tux Racer under the nouveau driver and it was completely unusable. I didn't validate exactly what sort of performance the nouveau driver was providing, but the impression from trying to play the game was that it would be lucky if the driver was giving 1 FPS frame rate.Perhaps that NVE7 missing firmware for acceleration?
Consequently my recommendation would be for anyone with an Nvidia card to always use the proprietary driver. In fact, in my opinion, Fedora are doing users a grave dis-service by not providing/supporting the proprietary driver in their standard repositories like the other 2 distros I am familiar with using (Ubuntu and Mandriva). regards, SteveAre you intentionally trying to play ignorant here? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#NVIDIA ... The NVIDIA graphics drivers are proprietary, and many kernel developers consider this driver to violate the GPL license of the kernel. Fedora does not include proprietary software. ...
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