Glad they confiirmed...
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| caitlyn Apr 17, 2012 2:14 PM EDT |
I'm glad NVIDIA is one of those companies that actually admit their mistakes. I do have one of the affected chipsets in my desktop. Fortunately my chipset works well enough with Nouveau (after fixing the botched autoconfiguration) that I haven't installed a recent proprietary driver. I'm not a gamer and the FOSS driver has been good enough. Hopefully a fixed driver will be forthcoming shortly. |
| kikinovak Apr 17, 2012 4:55 PM EDT |
About the only headache I have with my various Linux desktops (all running Debian Squeeze+KDE) is NVidia-driver-related. Some of my machines have the older 195.x driver, some the more recent 280.x driver from backports. Every once in a while, maybe every two or three weeks, I'll experience a total desktop freeze forcing me to hard-reboot the machine and lose all my unsaved work. This only happens on machines with NVidia cards. |
| caitlyn Apr 17, 2012 7:33 PM EDT |
I guess I should feel lucky. I only have the one system with an NVIDIA chipset and it works perfectly running the nouveau driver. |
| tracyanne Apr 17, 2012 8:32 PM EDT |
Yeah, I'm running the nouveau driver on my system with KDE4, it's working well. |
| kikinovak Apr 18, 2012 8:46 AM EDT |
Unfortunately kwin's advanced effects won't work with the nouveau drivers (correct me if I'm wrong). Since I have lots of apps and Virtualbox windows open, I use things like the exposé function all the time. I'm also running TwinView on two monitors. Hency my need for the closed source drivers. |
| tracyanne Apr 18, 2012 9:17 AM EDT |
Dunno, all the affects I had with the nVidia driver are still working just fine. I've noticed no difference. Dual Monitors work the same as before too. Which afffects do you refer to. |
| claudecat Apr 18, 2012 1:00 PM EDT |
I find that nouveau works better the more recent it is. What I mean is that it works (for me) with no issues on more "up-to-date" distros, not so much with something like Debian stable or CentOS. Even the 'buntus still seem a bit behind on this front, but Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, etc are good with nouveau. YMMV. |
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