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]"