My experience is the same. Things are super fast with Nouveau, but the random system-wide lock ups were unbearable. I'm a KDE plasma user as well. My last experience was about 6 months ago.
I wonder if there is anything we can do to help solve the lockup issues in the long run with Nouveau. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 04:20 Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, my experience with Nouveau has been dismal. > > I use KDE plasma, which runs everything via accelerated graphics and I > would encounter system-wide lockups within 2 hours, often much closer to > within 10 minutes. > Nouveau has better terminal support though, supporting the higher > resolutions that the proprietary driver can't be bothered to support. So > if > you have a vt-only use-case, it's a win. But otherwise, I'm very wary. > Granted, the last time I tried was about a year ago, but the troubles I > had > been experiencing were common with other users for long before that. > > You could give it a try and see. > > As for usage, iirc, if it's enabled in your kernel config, it's loaded by > default, even if the proprietary drivers are installed. I blacklisted the > Nouveau module to get the proprietary one loaded (so that I could switch > back after a kernel update to see if it worked properly then). Again, > things may have changed from when I last tried, but I think you should be > able to enable, build and reboot to have it loaded already (obviously, you > could rmmod and modprobe if the idea of a reboot doesn't sit well) > > -d > > > On July 23, 2018 12:17:53 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > > Among my efforts to get scanning working again with Gentoo, > > I've encountered another problem in a different area. > > Recently, I sent a message to this list re Nvidia-drivers > > -- that 396.24-r1 wouldn't start with my 4.14.52 kernel, > > so I started using 390.67 -- & I've now discovered that there's a problem > > with any version of Nvidia & my previous 4.9.16 & 4.2.0-r1 kernels. > > > > Might I be better off, if I used Nouveau instead ? > > It is what Mint 17 & 19 seem to use, so must be fairly stable. > > So a few questions : > > > > (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ? > > -- does it work easily with various kernels ? > > -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? > > -- I don't do much with video (a few newsreels) & don't use sound. > > > > (2) If I install it, how do I switch between Nouveau & Nvidia ? > > > > (3) Sadly, I didn't make a Quickpkg of the Nvidia version I was using > > when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626). > > I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds : > > is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ? > > > > -- > > ========================,,============================================ > > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > > > > > > > >
