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

[Ralf Mardorf]

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]"