On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:17 PM Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: [...] > (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ? > -- does it work easily with various kernels ?
Usually without any intervention from my part. > -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? Much more than with the NVidia binary driver, at least in my case. > -- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound. I watch video (both desktop and YouTube), listen to music and edit some video. Also I edit some images with Inkscape and/or Gimp. And normal desktop use. > (2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ? Basically "eselect opengl set xorg-11" or "nvidia". Also, for NVidia you must add a Xorg.conf snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ so you set the NVidia device for the binary driver. > (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 ? Git to the rescue: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers?id=9a52478a2329ffce09c4c1a400934499fcb5ae93 I should mention that I use GNOME. The nouveau drivers have been working like a charm for GNOME for several years. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
