On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:17:40 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ? > -- does it work easily with various kernels ?
Yes. > -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? Depends on your setup. For single monitor mode it is definitely yes. For multiple monitors in Xinerama mode it is usually yes. For multiple monitors with multiple X screens mode it is no (segfault), upstream right now is aware of the problem[1]. > -- 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 ? 1. You'll have two different Xorg configurations for nvidia and nouveau (at least in Driver option in Section "Device" at its settings). I usually switch between them using symlink. 2. eselect opengl set xorg-x11 | nvidia 3. I have to switch KMS on for nouveau and off for nvidia (to have normal VGA console): nomodeset vga=normal (for 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 ? Why you don't want to use the latest 390.77 (or 390.67) for stable? [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106772 Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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