High resource usage for Konq, nspluginviewer and Xorg...

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 01:30:54 UTC 2010


Thomas Janssen wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Linuxguy123
> <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 23:10 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>>> And it will be over for
>>> nvidia users as well, beginning with F-13.
>>
>> What ?
> 
> Ok, it wasn't obviously.
> 
> The *need* to use the propietary driver to have opengl. nouveau
> supports opengl  starting with F-13. Though i dunno exactly how
> much/what exact models are supported. But it's a start. Even the first
> guys testing it reports good progress. Means some opengl games and
> compiz working.
> 
> I only have one old FX5500 in an old box not running fedora there, so
> i cant tell.
> 

If nouveau delivers reasonable performance, I hope to switch.  I tried 
nouveau first on f12, but when I tried to play an hd video, and it just 
about killed my machine, I switch to nvidia.



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