On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote:
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 save much more energy. With Nouveau, your
GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's drivers will reduce
clocks and voltages when the card is idle.
Additional question:
what do you have for VIDEO_CARDS?
my make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa"
Mine:
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
"nv" is for the old, deprecated 2D-only driver that should not be used
anymore. "vesa" is for the generic VESA driver. It's still good as an
emergency backup.
Note that after changing VIDEO_CARDS, it's best to "emerge -uDN world&&
emerge -a --depclean".
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 have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory though. You can put
snippets in it with the *.conf extension and X.Org will read it when it
starts. For my GPU setting for example, I use
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/gpu.conf. It has a "Device" section in with:
Driver "nvidia"
This can be changed to "vesa" at any time.
