For what it's worth, my experience with Nouveau has been dismal.
I use KDE plasma, which runs everything via accelerated graphics and I
would encounter system-wide lockups within 2 hours, often much closer to
within 10 minutes.
Nouveau has better terminal support though, supporting the higher
resolutions that the proprietary driver can't be bothered to support. So if
you have a vt-only use-case, it's a win. But otherwise, I'm very wary.
Granted, the last time I tried was about a year ago, but the troubles I had
been experiencing were common with other users for long before that.
You could give it a try and see.
As for usage, iirc, if it's enabled in your kernel config, it's loaded by
default, even if the proprietary drivers are installed. I blacklisted the
Nouveau module to get the proprietary one loaded (so that I could switch
back after a kernel update to see if it worked properly then). Again,
things may have changed from when I last tried, but I think you should be
able to enable, build and reboot to have it loaded already (obviously, you
could rmmod and modprobe if the idea of a reboot doesn't sit well)
-d
On July 23, 2018 12:17:53 Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
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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