On 10.01.2021 15:49, Felix Miata wrote:
Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2021-01-10 14:34 (UTC+0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
...
Personally, I can't imagine any real reason to use "nouveau", because it
is trapped in development hell for years now
...
Anyway, the choice to use an opensource "nouveau" or proprietary
"nvidia" driver is still exist, both are supported by Debian and it is
up to end user to decide what to use.
I included my reply to you in the same post as my reply to OP because it could
be
noted there (three times) that the choice is not between Nouveau and NVidia, but
rather it's between those two AND the upstream default (aka preferred; since
server 1.17.x about six years ago) DDX driver: Modesetting. Here is where in
parts
of my post you did not quote where it could be seen three times:
...
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting
...
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting
...
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: modesetting
...
Notice the absence of "nouveau". You may better understand this choice among
three
rather than two by reading here:
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/mrmazda-1035595/amd-intel-and-nvidia-x-graphics-driver-primer-38306/>
URL you provided is gated behind account registration. That is enough
reason for me to ignore it.
I still don't understand why you recommend to use generic [1]
"modesetting" DDX module instead of vendor supplied and supported one
for your hardware.
Every xorg DDX module [2] is still depend on DRM KMS kernel driver [3]
supplied by hardware vendor (nvidia or nouveau, intel, amd, etc) to
function.
So "absence of nouveau" in those lines doesn't really tell anything,
because you still run "nouveau" driver in your system.
[1] https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DDX/
[2] $ apt-file find "_drv.so" | egrep
'modesetting|nvidia|intel|nouveau|amd|radeon'
[3] $ man 4 modesetting
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With kindest regards, Alexander.
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