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 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. Perhaps that NVE7 missing firmware for acceleration? > 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 > Are you intentionally trying to play ignorant here? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#NVIDIA ... The NVIDIA graphics drivers are proprietary, and many kernel developers consider this driver to violate the GPL license of the kernel. Fedora does not include proprietary software. ... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
