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

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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 graphics chipsets driven on:

x64/32 mamma board / 1 CPU
VGA Chipset: G98 (NV98) / Family : NV50
Xfce 4.11


Merci beaucoup

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 when I have updated the kernel and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of fedora F18 to F21, and the system was extremely sluggish with the nouveau driver. Even opening the Kmenu in the task bar was extremely slow. I have in the past also tried to run Tux Racer under the nouveau driver and it was completely unusable. I didn't validate exactly what sort of performance the nouveau driver was providing, but the impression from trying to play the game was that it would be lucky if the driver was giving 1 FPS frame rate. Consequently my recommendation would be for anyone with an Nvidia card to always use the proprietary driver. In fact, in my opinion, Fedora are doing users a grave dis-service by not providing/supporting the proprietary driver in their standard repositories like the other 2 distros I am familiar with using (Ubuntu and Mandriva).

regards,
Steve


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