Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

[Stephen Morris]

On 01/06/2015 07:49 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 09:33 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> I have on
>> occasion had to use the nouveau driver when I have updated the kernel
>> and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of
>> fedora F18 to F21,
> Except for very rare occasions, you probably could have resorted to 
> use the RPMFusion rpms (I recommend to use the nvidia-akmods)
>
>> Consequently my recommendation would be for anyone with an Nvidia card
>> to always use the proprietary driver.
> My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;)
>
>> In fact, in my opinion, Fedora are
>> doing users a grave dis-service by not providing/supporting the
>> proprietary driver in their standard repositories like the other 2
>> distros I am familiar with using (Ubuntu and Mandriva).
> Well, did you ever try the RPMFusion rpms?
>
> Ralf
>
I am using the RPMFusion repositories to get the nvidia driver but I 
shouldn't have to use a third party repository the get the drivers, they 
should be in standard repositories, and for what its worth, so should 
the proprietary java jdk are jre.
I use both the kmod and akmod drivers so that if the kmod driver is not 
available the akmod compile will kick in at boot time, the only problem 
is that since the Fedup upgrade to F21 (which for the first time was a 
horrendous process) the akmod drivers do not compile at boot time even 
though I have the kernel hearders and full source installed (or at least 
I'm assuming Fedup did its job properly and installed them). After the 
Fedup upgrade the only way I could get usage of the nvidia drivers was 
to do a DNF UPGRADE which installed updated kmod drivers.

regards,
Steve


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