[arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:20 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 08:32 AM, Don Juan wrote:
> > I honestly think the nouveau
> > ones are worse than the proprietary
> 
> don't use xf86-video-nv, use xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-dri for 3d

A lot of Nvidia users can't use the nouveau driver. It doesn't work for
any task with some cards and for some other cards it can't be used for
realtime pro-audio usage.

I prefer the proprietary nvidia driver, but sometimes, e.g. at the
moment for Arch Linux, I have to use the nv driver too, when nvidia
can't be used even with a faked licence.

It's good that Arch Linux still provide the nv driver, at least Debian
dropped it, but it's known that nouveau doesn't work for many users,
that there at least is the need to offend the GPL to use the proprietary
driver with a kernel-rt, while at the same time an important DE will
force people to use 3D acceleration.

Regards,

Ralf