On Sat, 16 May 2015 08:49:32 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote: >I don't know if the proprietary Nvidia driver is better than Nouveau >for GNOME usage. The proprietary driver at least supports the GTX 800 series. My interpretation of the log is, that nouveau doesn't support it. "[snip] [ 42.879] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : [ 42.879] RIVA TNT (NV04) [ 42.879] RIVA TNT2 (NV05) [ 42.879] GeForce 256 (NV10) [ 42.879] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15) [ 42.879] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18) [ 42.879] GeForce 3 (NV20) [ 42.879] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28) [ 42.879] GeForce FX (NV3x) [ 42.879] GeForce 6 (NV4x) [ 42.879] GeForce 7 (G7x) [ 42.879] GeForce 8 (G8x) [ 42.879] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0) [ 42.879] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0) [snip]"