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

2012-04-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés 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

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

2012-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés 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,

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

2012-04-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ? Do both of them support GPU usage? Thanks

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

2012-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:06:17 +0200 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. What's the difference (in

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

2012-04-12 Thread ny6p01
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

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

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ? My experience with my first and only ATI video card (a Mobility Radeon 9700), is that the opensource drivers for my chipset are basically

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

2012-04-11 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to

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

2012-04-11 Thread Alecks Gates
The only reason I really use nvidia-drivers is because of VDPAU. Otherwise I can't watch HD videos on my media center. VDPAU works great, and I hope nouveau supports it or something equivalent eventually. Mythtv probably uses it, though that's just a guess. Alecks Gates, sent from Android on

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

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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

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

2012-04-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
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