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 Nouveau, your
GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's drivers will reduce
clocks and voltages when the card is idle.
Although I like the aspect of open source drivers I also like the idea
of saving energy. So I stay with nvidia-drivers for now.
Nouveau, slowly but surely, gets better over time, including power
management. A good place to keep up to date with the progress of the
open drivers is the Phoronix news feed:
http://www.phoronix.com
It almost always reports on new features of the drivers.
