Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jan 6 08:49:56 UTC 2015


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



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