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.