Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: What are your recommendations? 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:38, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Note however that it's not obvious which version of nvidia-drivers to use. NVidia provides various different series of drivers. The drivers are versioned 96.*, 173.* and 295.*, and each version series is intended for different cards. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 00:32, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a xorg.conf any more. You