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> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:59:24 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] problem with the drm nouveau kernel modules
>
> John Burrell wrote:
>
> > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8700M
> > GT] (rev a1)
> >>
> > Armin suggests I make some upgrades. Guess I should go ahead and try that.
>
> Yes, you can, but I found both nv and nouveau unsatisfactory on my
> GeForce 9800 GTX because both were extremely slow. I used the
> proprietary driver and it's quite satisfactory to me.
>
> My very rough benchmark is glx gears. I had about 250 FPS on the open
> source drivers vs about 8700 FPS on the proprietary one.
>
I'm not desperate to use a nouveau driver, I'm sure a proprietary one will do
fine.
But having started out on this nouveau adventure, it would be interesting to
see where it leads.
jb.
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