On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > The new driver's been running OK so far. > Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. > Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if > it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM > onboard.
It may be from the RAM/CPU if the video is high-resolution. Nouveau still has to do a lot of things in software that the proprietary driver does in hardware. If sys-process/htop shows 100% CPU or RAM usage, that's probably it. To rule out the network you can try net-misc/youtube-dl. > Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I > previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary? Not necessary (there's no nouveau USE flags at the moment).
