Among my efforts to get scanning working again with Gentoo,
I've encountered another problem in a different area.
Recently, I sent a message to this list re Nvidia-drivers
-- that 396.24-r1 wouldn't start with my 4.14.52 kernel,
so I started using 390.67 -- & I've now discovered that there's a problem
with any version of Nvidia & my previous 4.9.16 & 4.2.0-r1 kernels.
Might I be better off, if I used Nouveau instead ?
It is what Mint 17 & 19 seem to use, so must be fairly stable.
So a few questions :
(1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ?
-- does it work easily with various kernels ?
-- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ?
-- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound.
(2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ?
(3) Sadly, I didn't make a Quickpkg of the Nvidia version I was using
when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626).
I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds :
is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ?
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