Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/07/2015 08:25 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, For me, too ... Most of the time :-) But I can relate why setting up can be too much for new-comers.

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:25:40 +0100, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote: On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, do you think e.g. AMD/Radeon cards are any better, and why? Is the

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread poma
On 06.01.2015 09:33, Stephen Morris wrote: My experience with the proprietary driver and nouveau driver using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 graphics card and KDE is that compared to the proprietary driver the nouveau driver is horribly slow. I have on occasion had to use the nouveau driver

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/06/2015 08:32 PM, poma wrote: On 06.01.2015 09:33, Stephen Morris wrote: My experience with the proprietary driver and nouveau driver using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 graphics card and KDE is that compared to the proprietary driver the nouveau driver is horribly slow. I have on occasion

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Roger
On 06/01/15 20:32, poma wrote: On 06.01.2015 09:33, Stephen Morris wrote: My experience with the proprietary driver and nouveau driver using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 graphics card and KDE is that compared to the proprietary driver the nouveau driver is horribly slow. I have on occasion had to

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/06/2015 09:33 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have on occasion had to use the nouveau driver when I have updated the kernel and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of fedora F18 to F21, Except for very rare occasions, you probably could have resorted to use the

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/06/2015 07:49 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/06/2015 09:33 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have on occasion had to use the nouveau driver when I have updated the kernel and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of fedora F18 to F21, Except for very rare occasions,

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 20:03:56 +1100, Stephen Morris samor...@netspace.net.au wrote: I am using the RPMFusion repositories to get the nvidia driver but I shouldn't have to use a third party repository the get the drivers, they should be in standard repositories, and for what its worth, so

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/06/2015 04:53 PM, poma wrote: Scrolling is super fast in Firefox using the nouveau[.ko][_drv.so] modules under Fedora 21. In fact the whole system seems fast, but that's another feature. Has anyone else noticed notable performance of the Linux Xorg X11 nouveau video modules for NVIDIA

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread poma
On 06.01.2015 10:46, Stephen Morris wrote: It has always been my understanding that the proprietary drivers make extensive use of the video cards hardware acceleration features where available, whereas the nouveau driver never has. Send complaints to the right address:

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 21:05 +1100, Roger wrote: Until a couple of years or more ago I would have agreed but I have been using Nouveau in Ubuntu and Fedora with Nvidia GT8600 graphics card for everything. Nouveau works a treat except for high intensity rendering 3D graphics with Blender.

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 20:46:09 +1100, Stephen Morris samor...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 01/06/2015 08:32 PM, poma wrote: It has always been my understanding that the proprietary drivers make extensive use of the video cards hardware acceleration features where available, whereas the nouveau

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, do you think e.g. AMD/Radeon cards are any better, and why? Is the driver more stable, faster etc.? I'm going to buy a new gfx card for one of my

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21

2015-01-06 Thread poma
Other than these exception: nouveau E[vlc[391]] push 0 buffer not in list traps: vlc[393] general protection ip:7fee42409adf sp:7fee3b107808 error:0 in libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0.0[7fee42407000+6000] Reset Preferences i.e. rm ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc was suffice to solve nouveau-tubbies. --

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread poma
On 07.01.2015 08:25, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, do you think e.g. AMD/Radeon cards are any better, and why? Is the driver more stable, faster etc.?

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-05 Thread poma
Scrolling is super fast in Firefox using the nouveau[.ko][_drv.so] modules under Fedora 21. In fact the whole system seems fast, but that's another feature. Has anyone else noticed notable performance of the Linux Xorg X11 nouveau video modules for NVIDIA graphics chipsets driven on: x64/32