On 04/16/2014 05:06 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> The new driver's been running OK so far.
>> Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth.
>> Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if
>> it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM
>> onboard.
> It may be from the RAM/CPU if the video is high-resolution. Nouveau
> still has to do a lot of things in software that the proprietary driver
> does in hardware. If sys-process/htop shows 100% CPU or RAM usage,
> that's probably it. To rule out the network you can try net-misc/youtube-dl.
>
>
>> Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I
>> previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary?
> Not necessary (there's no nouveau USE flags at the moment).
>
>
Understood. Thanks. I'll check those options out.
