On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:24:06PM +0100, Callum Davies wrote: > On 25/06/2013 08:58, Philip Guenther wrote > >I'm no X hacker, but I think the 'nv' driver was affected by Xorg > >removing the XAA acceleration framework from the core server. It was > >an evolutionary dead-end, apparently, so don't expect X-server-side > >acceleration to be coming back like that; client side, direct > >rendering is the path forward. The reasons for *not* buying NVIDIA > >have gotten even stronger. > I'm also not an X hacker but nv should use EXA since ~2007?
nv doesn't even have code to set the gfx card clock about vesa standard. I remember my previous laptop, nvidia card, piss-poor performance. Even text-scrolling was slow. SHUN NVIDIA. Really.
