On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 12:06 +0200, Karol Babioch wrote:
Am 03.05.2014 19:57, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
NVIDIA's proprietary driver support is better.
I can't attest to whether or not it is better, because I haven't touched ATI graphic cards for quite a while, but in my experience NVIDIA's proprietary driver sucks big time. Last time I checked it didn't support KMS natively and broke all sorts of stuff (e.g. terminals, resolution).
I've got a much smoother experience with nouveau, although it obviously isn't as great as the proprietary one in terms of power management (e.g. battery life) and performance.
Hi, as I already said, since I use linux-rt I prefer nouveau too. Using the proprietary driver with linux-rt became impossible for me, while I'm aware about the workarounds. However, I never was able to get the proprietary driver working for my ATI card, for what kernel ever, but with older linux-rt and always with vanilla linux the NVIDI proprietary worked like a charm. When nouveau was introduced, it didn't work for my card, it still didn't work when nv already was dropped. Last time I used it, nouveau was very pleasant. At the moment I'm using the ATI. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf ### Available Driver options are:- Driver "radeon" #Driver "nvidia" #Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" Btw. vesa is a PITA. Regards, Ralf