On Thursday 07 July 2011 14:59:11 walt did opine thusly: > On 07/06/2011 01:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So I switched to -9999 nouveau and now I have endless shit with > > crashes. But I can tolerate that and not whinge. > > Just today I tried the nouveau driver again after almost a year, and > found no change. The test was on my elderly machine with an > ancient GeForce FX 5200. I'm sure the nouveau devs lost interest > in that chip long ago, so no surprise. > > When I run glxgears with the proprietary nvidia driver I get 3000 > FPS. With nouveau I get 54 FPS. > > No, that's not a typo. The proprietary driver is 55 times faster > than nouveau. > > What results are you seeing?
About 850 FPS or so with glxgears. IIRC the nVidia driver could go to 2000+ FPS. This is on a GeForce 8600M GT (NV50 generation). Outright performance isn't my main interest, I don't do gaming or video rendering, I hardly even watch movies at all on this notebook - YouTube twice a day is about the most video stress I exert on it. And the fancy KDE candy effects are disabled. What I'm after is Free Software with KMS. And stable suspend/resume, I consider that important. In that regard nouveau easily matches the nVidia driver so I'm happy. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
