On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 4:12:28 AM UTC-4, juri...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I definitely think we should remove that guide though. Nouveau supports 
> > almost all Nvidia cards, and Qubes includes the signed firmware required 
> > for the newer Nvidia cards. With Nouveau we can now have 3D acceleration in 
> > dom0 without the proprietary driver. From hardware support perspective we 
> > don't need to show people how to install proprietary driver in dom0, if 
> > they want to, can't they just ask on the mailing list? It is also bad for 
> > people's software freedom to support the proprietary driver. Thoughts?
> > 
> > D.
> 
> Duncan, nouveau is kinda bugged, new distros are starting to have this issues 
> in their forums or add an NVIDIA or AMD option in their grub menu (nomodeset 
> option), for example, check the small distro FATDOG 64 (puppy linyx) grub 
> menu, for the problematic new cards that doesnt work with those old drivers 
> anymore

I find the opposie.  nvidia drivers on the latest de's have all sorts of screen 
tearing issues and fullscreen flickers due to compositing effects.  the 
noueveau drivers have no issues though.

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