On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:09:16AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500 > Canek Pel?ez Vald?s <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger > > <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > > Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: > > > > > >> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you > > >> update the kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping > > >> everything up to date. But I can't comment on the nvidia drivers > > >> since I've never tried them. Nouveau works well enough for me. > > > > > > See my other reply: Nikos hit the point. > > > > I actually changed to nouveau because the desktop performance of > > nvidia-drivers sucked at the time. I still use nvidia-drivers in my > > media center (because of VDPAU), but in my desktop I changed about > > year and a half ago, and I'm pretty happy with it. > > > > Before that, I used nvidia-drivers for many years, and it was always > > full of ups and downs; some versions worked great, others were barely > > usable. The nouveau drivers have been consistently good, even for > > small 3D use (things like Blender). > > > > If you don't use (modern) games, I highly recommend the nouveau > > drivers. For a modern desktop they work great. > > I'll second that. I don't need blazing fast 3D performance, I do need > stable drivers that keep pace with kernel releases. I got tired of > having to remember to fully test nvidia-drivers every time I did a > kernel upgrade so switched to nouveau. > > That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I > use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. > > The other killer was that I could never get nvidia-drivers to deal with > a multi-monitor setup in any kind of sane fashion. nVidia does do > multi-monitor, it just wants to present it in a way that made no sense > to me at all. Even something as simple as unplugging my desk monitor > and going to a meeting room to do a presentation on the projector > required an X restart.
Yes, nouveau is very adept at juggling monitors. Terry
