On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 21:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/06/2016 03:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 06:33 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I don't have a problem with Steam. As long as I use the Nvidia
drivers
> > > it works perfectly well. My problem is with hibernation. See the thread
> > > starting at:
> > >
> > You mentioned problems with Steam under Nouveau. Sorting that means more
> > people, including you, can use Nouveau. Sorting a problem involving
> > Nvidia
> > drivers is more likely to be an exercise in frustration since we aren't
> > allowed
> > to see big parts of the code that might be involved.
>
> No doubt, but a) I'm not an expert on graphics drivers so realistically
> I can't contribute anything useful to the Nouveau project other than
> testing stuff, and b) the Nvidia hardware is proprietary and (I assume)
> incompletely documented. This is true of a lot of GPU chipsets. The
> proprietary drivers work better because they use undocumented features.
> Apparently
>
Sure, but the point George was making was that if you file a bug on
Nouveau with the problems that you're having with Steam, maybe it could
get fixed and you wouldn't have to worry about hibernating with the
NVidia driver.
I understand that, however the issue isn't that Steam doesn't work, but
that some FPS-type games are too laggy to be usable, i.e. the problem
is performance rather than function. I may look into it at some point
but for now I've just settled on using suspend instead of hibernate,
and that works fine.
poc