On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 21:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/06/2016 03:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 06:33 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I don't have a problem with Steam. As long as I use the Nvidia drivers > > > > it works perfectly well. My problem is with hibernation. See the thread > > > > starting at: > > > > > > > You mentioned problems with Steam under Nouveau. Sorting that means more > > > people, including you, can use Nouveau. Sorting a problem involving > > > Nvidia > > > drivers is more likely to be an exercise in frustration since we aren't > > > allowed > > > to see big parts of the code that might be involved. > > > > No doubt, but a) I'm not an expert on graphics drivers so realistically > > I can't contribute anything useful to the Nouveau project other than > > testing stuff, and b) the Nvidia hardware is proprietary and (I assume) > > incompletely documented. This is true of a lot of GPU chipsets. The > > proprietary drivers work better because they use undocumented features. > > Apparently > > > Sure, but the point George was making was that if you file a bug on > Nouveau with the problems that you're having with Steam, maybe it could > get fixed and you wouldn't have to worry about hibernating with the > NVidia driver. I understand that, however the issue isn't that Steam doesn't work, but that some FPS-type games are too laggy to be usable, i.e. the problem is performance rather than function. I may look into it at some point but for now I've just settled on using suspend instead of hibernate, and that works fine. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
