On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 08:24 -0600, Dan Burkland wrote: > > On 12/23/2009 03:21 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > > Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver > > > instead of the nouveau driver. > > > > > > If you are using the proprietary nvidia driver or some other non kms > > > equipped driver, how are you finding F12 ? Ie do you experience > > > freezing when you access some panel items ? > > > > Nouveau driver will cause X to freeze my system (HP s3707c w/ onboard > > GeForce 9100), with rebooting being the only option. No problems at all > > with the proprietary nvidia driver. <edited to restore content in bottom posting style...> > I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite sure). > > Dan I'm using the proprietary driver on F12 (from RPMFusion) with nouveau blacklisted according to other posts. I also upgraded to the patched version of xorg currently on Koji that fixes issues with the proprietary driver and X. Everything works much better than with the current nouveau driver. True 3D support is _far_ more important to me (and my kids who plat a lot of opengl based games - Extreme Tux Racer for example) than having a Plymouth/kms based bootup. I also need the accelerated graphics to fully support accelerated graphics with VMware Workstation 7. The proprietary nVidia drivers support this in Workstation. The nouveau drivers don't. The graphical startup is certainly nice, but sacrificing hours of performance issues and enduring the loss of useful and needed function for a targetd 20 seconds "Plymouth prettiness" just doesn't cut it for me. I'll live with 20 seconds of the little blue/white bootup lines instead. If and when nouveau provides the level of 3D performance and stability found in the proprietary driver, I will consider making the switch... Cheers, Chris -- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
