[arch-general] Handling GeForce GTX 850M GPU on Arch Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 15 May 2015 23:31:33 -0000, caocoa at mail2tor.com wrote:
>[Xorg.0.log] https://pastee.org/r5tak


A quasi grep EE ...


"[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]
[    42.904] (II) glamor: OpenGL accelerated X.org driver based.
[    42.924] (II) glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2):
[    42.924] EGL_MESA_drm_image required.
[    42.924] (EE) NOUVEAU(G0): [GLAMOR] failed to initialise EGL
[snip]
[    42.924] (EE) NOUVEAU(G0): Error creating GPU channel: -19
[    42.924] (EE) NOUVEAU(G0): Error initialising acceleration.
Falling back to NoAccel [    42.924] (**) NOUVEAU(G0): [COPY]
acceleration disabled [snip]"


... and searching the web for "Error initialising acceleration.  Falling
back to NoAccel" and "Linux noveau GeForce GTX 850M" I just found
recommendations to use the vesa or the proprietary driver. IOW when
using GNOME you should use the proprietary driver. Did you already test
it?