Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 06:49:09 +0000 (UTC), Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> nvidia legacy drivers? >> In the latter case you are doomed... >> I also had to throw out recently an nvidia card because of this. > > Was nouveau not an option.
No. It seems, nouvau is lost without support from nvidia: Despite the "matrix" on nouveau claims since many years that the card be "fully" supported, it practically never got over crashes. The actual progress over several years was from 1. immediate kernel panic during booting, over 2. booting but not running X, to 3. running X but displaying only gray, to 4. running X but halting the machine (or at least X) with a chance of ~30% when doing daring things like opening a window or writing text in a window. Latest versions before I dumped the card got me back to 5. Start over with 1. On another machine (with a newer graphics card), DPMS state is not kept for longer than a few seconds, and despite I reported the issue and had a lot of work testing with patched kernels, it apparently could not be fixed; it is still not working. Of course, things like googleearth etc. do not work at all (well, after a few minutes the first picture of the rotating earth was finally finished, and the next picture started to be drawn... new versions of googleearth crash now immediately.) My experience: Completely unusable for both cards, even if I am willing to make a lot of compromise.
