How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

[Dave Martin]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:15:07AM -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> nouveau does work fine... If you have one screen, or two screens and
> like spanning desktops (with the second to the right of the first).
> If you (like I) prefer separate desktops (so I can put a virtual
> machine on the second monitor) and the second screen to the left of
> the first, you are still pretty much out of luck with nouveau.

I had that problem.  (I use a laptop with a docking station, I like my
second screen above the built in one.)  I solved it by dropping a xrandr
script in my KDE Autostart dir.  If you like, you can wrap it a test to
see which monitors are detected, and set things from there.

> I tried out nouveau recently as I was experiencing "tearing" of the
> portions of the screen when scrolling firefox with a window
> partially on top of firefox and was hoping it was the driver.
> Unfortunately nouveau has the same problem.

I'm still using the proprietary driver, because nouveau doesn't have the
3d support on my chipset needed for blender yet.  Nouveau does deal much
better with things when I boot with only one screen connected (default
font size issues on the desktop) and in general seems to play nicer with
the desktop.


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